PAIGE PARKERs new book provides a fresh and raw perspective on the epic world trip she and husband Jim Rogers took together. melainne chiew gets the story
Hitting the shelves this month, Paige Parker’s book, Don’t Call Me Mrs Rogers: Love, Loathing and Our Epic Drive Around the World, gives her side of the story about her marathon drive around the world with husband Jim Rogers nearly 20 years ago. In a sunshine yellow, custom-built Mercedes convertible and trailer, they drove for three years across 111 countries and three territories. The feat earned them a Guinness World Record for Most Countries Visited in a Continuous Journey by Car, which they hold to this day.
Peppered with photographic mementos and unforgettable anecdotes, Parker’s hearty narrative recounts how she first met Rogers in North Carolina and said yes to a wild adventure, which Rogers documented in his 2004 book, Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip.
She had been surprised to read her husband’s account. “His geopolitical travel book wasn’t my story, so I spent a couple years working on mine,” she says.
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Prestige Singapore.
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