Dana Kent is one of the liveliest storytellers I know. I love going to her house in Montecito, sitting in her living room, and hearing her tales about travel adventures around the globe, from scuba diving to golf stories, including her hole-in-one.
So it wasn’t surprising to hear that, decades after leaving her career as a journalist in 1959 to raise a family, Dana recently penned her first book. Called Brussels to Beirut to Bali, the memoir chronicles the intrepid trip she undertook in 1958 with three equally adventurous young women through Europe, Turkey, and into the war torn Middle East. Their journey begins with the purchase of a used car, but turns more perilous when they must sell it in Iraq and continue their travels by any means possible. Altogether, their journey takes them through 26 countries and countless escapades.
Dana will be doing a book-signing on August 12 at Chaucer’s bookstore at 7 p.m. But today, our fearless adventurer answers the Proust Questionnaire.