All Over the Place

Some people have a hankering to travel the globe, to see its wonders and share their stories. Geraldine DeRuiter is not one of those people. She never had a sense of direction, she's terrified of pigeons, and she gets motion sickness when tying her shoes. Geraldine prefers the comforts of home, a bag of nachos in her hand while binge-watching Netflix on her sofa. But that doesn't mean she'll let these shortcomings stop her from going on adventures. Geraldine chronicles her years spent traveling the world after getting laid off from a job she loved in All Over The Place . The years living out of a suitcase taught her many things--though map-reading skills were not one of them. In fact, she only has a vague idea where Russia is--but what she lacks in geographic knowledge she makes up for with insights into her Russian father. She learned that what she thought was her mother's functional insanity was actually an equally incurable condition called being Italian. "