Finding Her Center: An Interview With Solo Travel Author Barbara Weibel of Hole in The Donut (Travel Post)
Barbara Weibel, Author
After years of working 70-80 hours per week at jobs that paid the bills but
brought no joy, a serious illness made Barbara Weibel realize she felt like
the proverbial “hole in the donut” – solid on the outside but empty on the
inside. After recovering her health, she walked away from her successful but
unfulfilling career, sold or gave away most of her material possessions,
donned a backpack and traveled around the world for six months to pursue the
only things that had ever made her happy: travel, photography and writing.
Because Weibel believes that the better we know one another, the less likely
we are to want to kill one another, she immerses into the local culture
wherever she travels. Four years later she is still on the road, more
convinced than ever that we are all more alike than we are different and that
travel is one of the most effective tools in the quest for world peace. You
can check out her site, holeinthedonut.com, here.
**1. How would you define your travel ‘style’?**
In a word: unstructured. I travel perpetually, returning to the U.S. once or
twice …
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