About the author
Sandra CH Smith, an American-born child of immigrant parents, says adventuring is in her DNA. At age 11, she spent the school-year in Scotland, devoting free time to poking around dark and dank dungeons. Since then, she has lived in and explored many far-flung places, mostly alone, just because they were there. Smith spent her teenaged years in San Francisco's North Beach as a beatnik, hanging out with Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beat writers. (Thirty years later, Lawrence Ferlinghetti would be a regular guest/crew aboard Smith's hot pink sailboat.) After studying International Economics and Foreign Affairs at George Washington University, Smith earned a degree from Grenoble University, France. She has enjoyed a zillion careers from art school model, actor and chef, to Constituent Liaison for a U.S. Senator in DC, Arts administrator, realtor, lobbyist for the Arts, director of Santa Cruz CA and Springfield MO Arts Commissions, to newspaper reporter/feature writer, host of her own ocean-going radio show, and innkeeper.
Smith lives with her medievalist/opera-lover husband and their one-eyed 11-year old rescue doggie in Old Bisbee in Arizona's High Sonoran desert. In between RV escapades and other travels, she spends time writing about their non-stop adventures and creating exotic yummy recipes. Smith says her mantra today is, "I can't change the wind, but I can adjust my sails." (Jimmy Dean and/or Dolly Parton).