Reading Full Tilt made me feel as if I were eight years old again. Young boys grow up being given stories of adventures and adventurers, but young girls have to find them. She said that in order to be brave, you had to be afraid in the first place, which she never was. She was famously attacked by wolves that she shot at during the Full Tilt journey in Bulgaria. I think of the simple courage and awesome recklessness of her travelling, often alone, never in vehicles (at least not that she was driving), but on mules, bikes and foot, over mountains and through deserts and forests.
