December 11,
In the flurry of getting ready for what we intended to be a pilgrim walk in France that got switched to an Overseas Adventure Travel excursion to Egypt, I’ve neglected updates to this blog. Here is the latest from our newsletter, and a promise to do better in the future!
 Linnea and Kent adventuring in Egypt And experiencing ancient and modern GreeceAmazon SalesAmazon Book Sales Would this encourage you to buy the book?I didn’t make any goofy videos for Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok while we were away, so perhaps that is why Amazon sales of We Ran Away to Sea suddenly slumped during the last week of November and the first week of December. Alas! We’d been selling about 20 books per month on Amazon for most of the year, but it appears that We Ran Away to Sea has hit the doldrums. If you’re still looking for just the right present for someone (hint), the book is readily available at local bookstores, on Amazon, or even from us. If you’d like to give us a present, please share your responses to the book in a sentence or two. And a big thank you to those who have already done so! Or, send us a picture of you with the book!  Overlooking the River Nile from the Old Cataract Hotel in AswanNow that we’re home, once I get a Christmas letter written, I’ll return to writing my memoir tentatively titled Once a Pilgrim about my 2010 life-changing solo pilgrimage from Le-Puy-en-Velay, France, to Pamplona, Spain, (including a May snowstorm in the Pyrenees). Kent and I are also compiling and editing the stories we left out of We Ran Away to Sea. Kent gave two well-received book talks, one just two days before we left for Europe and one just four days after our return. Don’t give up on us! We’re not dead yet, but still processing the thousands of years of history we walked through in Egypt and Greece, and the U.S. election, which took the wind out of our sails. Kent is reading Joseph Conrad in an oversized volume I must have inherited from my dad called A Conrad Argosy. Now there’s a real writer for you! Marlow speaking in The Heart of Darkness (near the beginning of that novella), “…like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in a flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.” And will come again.  Kent reading A Conrad Argosy. Doubleday, 1942. woodcuts by Hans Alexander Mueller |
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