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Let's Not Play Small: A Memoir of Divorce, Healing, and Reinvention Through Solo Travel
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $36.99
Publisher: Dawn Ritter Fischer
Published: Oct 1 2025
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
One woman's journey of courage, healing, and reinvention through solo travel.
When Dawn Ritter Fischer walked away from a conventional life in 2019, she wasn't chasing bucket lists or Instagram-perfect moments - she was searching for herself.
After divorce, heartbreak, and decades of living by everyone else's rules, she chose to rewrite her story one country at a time. What followed was a reckoning - and the radical act of rebuilding a life.
Dawn boards a cargo ship bound for Patagonia, sails the Caribbean with a French lover, walks 500 miles across Spain and lands in a small village in India just as the world shuts down.
Stranded by a global pandemic, she's forced into the stillness - and into herself. Dawn's story is as breathtaking as the places she's traveled as a full-time solo nomad. Along the way, she learns that solo travel isn't about escaping life - it's about creating it.
Let's Not Play Small is a raw, funny, and deeply personal memoir about starting over, trusting yourself, personal transformation, and saying yes when fear says no. Through moments of vulnerability and strength, Dawn invites you into her most unforgettable experiences:
Facing fear while traveling solo through unfamiliar countries
Building connection and community on the road
Learning how to live fully after loss and reinvention
Discovering love - in unexpected places and in herself
This is a book for women at a crossroads, dreamers craving adventure, and anyone who's ever wondered what's possible when you step beyond your comfort zone.
The added bonus? Dawn includes a Solo Travel Toolkit within the book that contains everything you need to know, to go solo with confidence.
If you've ever longed to reinvent your life, travel the world, or reconnect with your courage, this book will inspire you to take the leap and start living boldly.
Because playing small was never the plan.
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