I took a sabbatical from corporate working life and traveled around the world for a couple years. A search for self? Sure...and what a great time it was, too. Every day along the way, experiences happened, and I learned much about the world. I learned much about myself myself, too. And what I found was the world is a great and wonderful place, full of people everywhere. The cultures varied and were many. In its most simplistic way, people are just living their lives, struggling and enjoying, suffering and thriving, enduring and prospering. What it comes down to in how we intereact, we're all just people. And from some of these experiences, came the novel OVERLAND. It's a love story and a grand adventure. The main character Danny, learns a lot about life and love. And in the end, he learns how to embrace it. Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt;"Times New Roman";} How the world was 30 years ago, a different time. OVERLAND appeals to multiple groups of people with varied interests, and appeals to both women and men. It is a very nice love story, but not in the Harlequin’ish way (with all due respect to Harlequin romances). But there’s so much more: History of the Soviet Union’s actual invasion of Afghanistan on December 27, 1979. This is where Danny and Heather, two of the main characters are caught in the wrong place in the wrong time. The story has loads of adventures and lots of traveling and cultural diversity.   Also, it will appeal to cultures around the world as Islam, Christianity, Hindu and Buddhism just weave and merge in and out of the story. There are some moral and human lessons that even though we may be defined by our culture or religion, or both, we’re all just people…and especially now, we all need to be reminded of that.