How Not to Travel

<p>Norman L. Lofland and Betty J. Lofland share the lessons they learned traveling teaching and living abroad in their memoir <em>How Not to Travel</em>.</p><p><br></p><p>The couple started their teaching careers at Bethel College a Mennonite liberal arts college in North Newton Kansas. In 1963 interesting adventures developed after a travel agent friend inspired them to apply for jobs in Beirut Lebanon. </p><p><br></p><p>The Loflands never imagined that they would end up teaching four decades abroad. Their adventures included meeting the Shah of Iran; having an audience with Colonel Muamar Khaddafi; interacting with Yasser Arafat before the Israelis bombed the Palestinian headquarters; driving a Karmann Ghia from Beirut to London and back as well as from Beirut to Tehran and back; designing a theatre in Tehran with Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West architects; and perhaps most important exchanging ideas with students in Lebanon Iran Tunisia China Macau and North Cyprus.</p><p><br></p><p>Join the Loflands as they recall the highs the lows and the life lessons they learned amid the reality of war revolution and exotic living.</p>