Walking With Mom - Margie Willis - Bog

My book starts with the first time mom took me on a hike -- I was only three weeks old, on a family camping trip! Our stories include two times when the family hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, along with many walks along the central California coast, not to forget mom's first backpacking trip at age sixty-six. The grand finale is mom's own story of when she hiked the Grand Canyon rim-to-rim (down the north rim and up the south rim) at age seventy-nine.Taking the reader along on our hikes, I can illustrate mom's long journey from being meek and beat down emotionally by her first two husbands and then finally finding herself and her strength by tackling these goals she previously felt unsure about doing. In the end, mom is an admirable phoenix rising from the ashes of bad marriages and abuse. Her accomplishments bring tears to my eyes, especially her own story of hiking the Grand Canyon at age seventy-nine.