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About the Book

Around the Country in 56 Days: Volume Two picks up the day the Abrams family pulled out of Southern California to chase a dream Deborah had since childhood: travel around the country by RV and revisit many of the the 1980 road trip destinations she had visited with her family, but this time with elbow room. The planning began in 2012 as a 30-day rental; reality (and ambition) stretched it to 56 days and more than 8,000 miles. Renting no longer made sense, so they bought an RV and committed. Lots of smart people said an itinerary that tight would fall apart (between weather, a used rig, airline schedules, and two middle-schoolers), but they went anyway. Volume Two is part journal, part review, part confessional: the places they visited, the detours they didn’t expect, and the moments they’ll keep forever. The Reader Edition prints photos in black and white to keep costs down and the Audible edition lists the photos but can't show them, but you can view every image in full color here on RVTripBook.com.

About the Author

Deborah M. Abrams is a retired Air Force officer who served 25 years on Active Duty and in the Reserves as an Intelligence Officer. She also worked in software and systems engineering management and geospatial-intelligence software training for a large government contractor. She met her husband, Steve, a U-2 pilot, while stationed in Korea. They married in San Diego in 1998. They have two children, David and Beth. Deborah has fond memories of a family road trip in 1980, even though she was wedged between two teenagers in the back seat the entire time. Decades later she expanded on that journey with her own family, this time in an RV, and that adventure became this book. Since 2019 she has taught college business courses in Southern California and Delaware. She completed a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in 2024, which significantly delayed, but then ultimately sharpened, the writing of this volume.