A wrong turn at the office of unmade lists by Jane Rawson: 9 Feb, 2017

It's 1997 in San Francisco. Simon and Sarah are on a quest to stand in every 25-foot square of the United States at least once. Decades later, in Australian, Caddy is camped by the Maribyrnong River. She’s sick of being broke and alone. Caddy’s future changes when her friend, Ray, finds some well-worn maps—including one of San Francisco. Their lives connect with those of Simon and Sarah in ways that are both unexpected and profound.

A wrong turn at the office of unmade lists was the winner of the Most Underrated Book of 2014.

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The section of the book that mentioned the Green Tortoise was a blast from the past for me. I travelled on it around 1981 from San Francisco to Seattle and was wondering whether Jane had also been on it?+

Hi Melinda, thanks for the question. I have been on Green Tortoise - in 2000 I took the overnight bus from San Francisco (where I was living) to LA to meet my brother who was working as an assistant at a gibbon research facility in Santa Clarita. I loved being able to make my own cosy little floor nook to sleep in. And it was great seeing the young folk meet, fall in love and break up all in the space of a 10 hour trip: backpacking is so emotional. I'm glad you asked this, because I went online to check if they still exist and was shocked/delighted to discover they do.