My Heart’s Journey: Chasing Love through Europe on a Motor Scooter
A Memoir by Joan Foor
Foor Publishing, 2020
My Heart’s Journey … Don’t we all have one?
In 1964, when a 28-year-old woman decided she really needed to see the world, she did it, picking up a German motor scooter and taking on thousands of miles on her little motorized vehicle by herself, unafraid, eager, and never knowing what was going to be happening the next day. In the end, she had pretty well captured all of Europe, met some amazing people, fell in and out of ‘love’ several times and proved to the world a determine woman even in the 1960s could do whatever she put her mind to.
Half a century later, this same lady now a retired Army officer, a much smarter woman and a great writer, found all here notes and collectibles from that time when she was so daring and got the idea others might like to hear her stories.
Joan Foor was right again!
My Heart’s Journey, an engaging and fast paced paperback is unique in the way Foor tells of stories of traveling from France through Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark and more. She wastes little print on the beauty of the Eiffel Tower or the grandeur of Notre Dame when in Paris, or the castles of Heidelburg Germany, or even where Grace Kelly got to live after she gave up her Hollywood stardom for a happy marriage to a Prince in Monaco.
Instead, she writes about her several flirtations and weird encounters along the way, the amount and kinds of food and drink she savored in each country. She must have loved it all; she even preserved and included in the book photos of receipts in several languages, letters from home and even correspondence about her scooter which she put up for sale at the end of the trip.
The author touches on her love life that was part of the reason she took the journey in the first place, and about meeting, greeting and loving the family of her intended husband at some time further down her lifeline.
Through it all, she writes with a passion for the unusual, a daring that gave her such an exciting few months, and an experience which doubtlessly created a new foundation for her life from then forward.
What happened to the love interest, the friends she met and has kept through the years, the shocks and disappointment getting back to the States at the end of the trip are all included in a book that convinces the reader that in her later life as an Army officer, she must have been a tough lady to reckon with….but to love.
Check out My Heart’s Journey, Joan Foor, and Foor Publishing in Culver City Calif. Well worth the effort and the less than $20 purchase or library visit.
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