Next Stop: Gallup!

Next Stop: Gallup! is a memoir of young Anne as she recovers from a debilitating attack of multiple sclerosis. Working as a volunteer in a Catholic Retreat Center, surrounded by New Mexico's beauty, she takes the reader inside the state's diverse Indian cultures: the humble Navajo, the now quiet Apaches, the Zuni and their Mudhead dances, and even an authentic saloon.

Traveling the back roads of a reservation with a gung-ho religious missionary spouting God-fearing epithets, Next Stop: Gallup! is an exciting adventure that gives readers a first-hand look at what it's like to live with a disease without relying on pharmaceuticals but rather how being happy is a palliative treatment on its own. Dramatic landscapes and rock formations aid in Anne's recuperation as she's transformed not only spiritually but physically as well by doing nothing more than admiring New Mexico's beauty.