title: Gutsy Mamas: Travel Tips and Wisdom for Mothers on the Road (Travelers' Tales Guides)
author: Marybeth Bond
description: In only three months, Travelers' Tales Gutsy Women has gone to its second printing. Its popularity has inspired award-winning editor/author Marybeth Bond, mother of two, to make her next book Travelers' Tales Gutsy Mamas, a book of tips and wisdom for mothers traveling with their children. Look for Gutsy Mamas this summer.
zlib_text: **Julie Berry**
  
    
  
  _**For Phil**_
  
    
    
    
    
  
  The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be
  cut out.
  
  Proverbs 10:31  
  
   _ **Before**_
  
   _We came here by ship_ , you and I.
  
  I was a baby on my mother’s knee, and you were a lisping, curly-headed boy
  playing at your mother’s feet all through that weary voyage.
  
  Watching us, our mothers got on so well together that our fathers chose
  adjacent farm plots a mile from town, on the western fringe of a Roswell
  Station that was much smaller then.
  
  I remember my mother telling tales of the trip when I was young. Now she never
  speaks of it at all.  
  She said I spent the whole trip wide-eyed, watching you.
  
   _ **After**_
  
   **Book One**
  
    
  
   **I**
  
   _You didn’t come._
  
  I waited all evening in the willow tree, with gnats buzzing in my face and sap
  sticking in my hair, watching for you to return from town.
  
  I know you went to town tonight. I heard you ask Mr. Johnson after church if
  you could pay a call on him this 