A Lizard in the Sun

What would you do if you were desperate to travel around the world but youhad little or no money to finance your trip? You could stay home feelingsorry for yourself keep putting it off until you could afford it or justpack a bag and go hoping to be able to live on your wits and find workalong the way. That's what Pat Bensky did in her early twenties and it ledto a three-year adventure as she worked her way around Europe North Africathe West Indies Bahamas and the USA. At times she was hungry homelesssick miserable ecstatic; was almost lost at sea and cured of a seriousillness by a West Indian witch doctor. But her resourcefulness courage andpositive attitude steered her through the hard bits and when she got toCalifornia she decided that she