Winging It Through Southern Africa: One Girl, a Backpack, and the Art of Getting Lost

Winging It Through Southern Africa
One Girl, a Backpack, and the Art of Getting Lost

She wasn't planning on a life shake-up. But then again, she wasn't planning much at all.

In the wake of heartbreak and a creeping sense that her life doesn't quite fit, she sets off on a trip through Southern Africa-with a backpack, a journal, and zero expectations. From spice-scented markets in Zanzibar to chaotic bus stations in Harare and stolen moments in Cape Town, Winging It Through Southern Africa is a voice-driven, emotionally raw journey through the unpredictable-and often hilarious-terrain of self-reinvention.

This is not the story of someone who has it together. It's about learning to move forward while still falling apart, about desire and disconnection, loneliness and wonder. Told with biting wit and quiet depth, it captures the wild in-between space where heartbreak becomes freedom, and getting lost is the best way to begin again.

• Travel That Feels Real: Experience Southern Africa through vivid, unfiltered moments-not guidebook gloss.

• Emotionally Honest: Perfect for anyone navigating transitions, breakups, or identity shifts.

• Funny, Flawed, and Fearlessly Human: Like a friend oversharing on a bus ride to nowhere in particular.

• A Tribute to Uncertainty: Reminds us that life doesn't need a plan to be meaningful.

For fans of character-driven fiction like Conversations with Friends and Eat, Pray, Love-but with more dust, sweat, and delightfully poor choices.

Perfect for:

• Women craving voice-rich, emotionally authentic storytelling

• Solo travel lovers and wanderlust-fueled readers

• Millennials and Gen Z in the thick of a pivot

• Anyone who needs a reminder that it's okay not to have it all figured out