Lady Macleod - Graffiti Artist

'Wanderlust' is apparently the middle name of this writer. She left her birth country, the U.S. in 1980 and never looked back.

She has travelled the heights of the Himalayas to the dry vastness of the Gobi desert – when planning a family vacation her daughter said, 'I would like to go somewhere together that you have never been. Where would that be mom?' That question required consulting a map.

For years on the road, with a background in critical care medicine and open heart surgery, she wrote articles on the unusual (Curling in Morocco), and the experiences and travails of a woaca travelling the world on a route not mapped out by the Hilton chain!

The plight of women in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other countries in the East and Middle East, as well as Africa led her to become an advocate of these women through the organization that she felt could do the most good - Heifer International. On any excuse she will 'sacrifice a goat' (pay for a goat to be sent to a village). She has done such a good job of bullying her family that this past holiday season and upon her recent marriage she received a couple of goats, an orchard, some geese and chickens – where’s that hay-bailer when you need it?
 
She is currently finishing her first full-length novel that was to have been completed last year but her life took a turn and became more romantic than the book she was writing.  
 
A note on her blog in August of 2008 from her one true love of 34 years ago, thousands of dollars later on his mobile phone bill, and they met in Paris for a week – she was holding a plane ticket for India. He asked her to come to Texas instead; they were married 3 November 2008, and then had a family wedding 6 June 2009.
 
She chronicles her daily adventures and opinions on everything in her blog Braveheart-does-the-maghreb.com

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Braveheart does the Maghreb