Rebecca Caldow developed a curiosity that has taken her around the world, organizational skills that enable her to be her own travel agent, and a competitive nature that has caused her to follow Brian, her husband of over 50 years, into harebrained and hair-raising adventures. She has

bungee jumped, flown in a plane with no engines, crashed through a rainforest canopy, kayaked in a river full of alligators, and hopped into a car with a complete stranger in a foreign country. Why? Because she usually can’t think of a good reason not to, and she has learned that the best

memories happen when you say, “Why not!”

When she isn't surviving her own adventures, Rebecca is a retired public library branch manager.

She previously worked in child welfare, juvenile justice, and parent education, and she holds master's degrees in both criminal justice and library and information science.

Rebecca has also been collecting stories for years. She has written a series of illustrated travel blogs for over 15 years, documenting trips across multiple continents and attracting readers in several countries, including China and Palestine. She offers lively, story-driven programs about

humor, travel mishaps, marriage, preserving family memories, child development, lifelong curiosity, publishing, and making the most of the years they have left.