Finding Katya: How I Quit Everything to Backpack the Former Soviet States

Finding Katya is the inspiring and engaging story of one woman who ditches everything to embark on an unconventional adventure through the former Soviet Union.

On her 35th birthday, Katie Aune was at a crossroads. Still reeling from a difficult breakup and longing to find more meaning in her life, she hopped on a one-way flight to start a year-long journey of discovery. Once a Russian and East European Studies major in college, Aune plotted a course that would take her through all 15 states of the former Soviet Union.

In a book that is part memoir, part travelogue, Aune takes readers along as she discovers places that are far off the typical tourist track, from riding the Trans-Siberian Railway across Russia and taking a cargo ferry from Ukraine to Georgia, to volunteering in Tajikistan and camping in the desert of Turkmenistan. Faced with the vulnerability of traveling solo through unfamiliar lands, she shakes off her insecurities, embraces the unknown and realizes that each journey is worthwhile, even if it doesn't go as planned.

Author: Katie R. Aune
Publisher: Katie Aune
Published: 05/31/2023
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9798988365907
ISBN10: 8988365909
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Special Interest | Adventure
- Travel | Russia
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

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