Climb the mountain! Pet the peacock! This is the advice from the drunk gal-pals, that might not be the best to follow. However, Katie tells about an English explorer who traveled all around the world. One adventure the locals trapped her in a house and set it on fire! Learn about the lady who was allergic to sitting still, Isabella Bird.
Show Notes & Extras
- Gal Pals this month are Bonnie Fillenwarth, Katie Harris, Amy Dalton and Leah Leach
- Katie remembers names
- Get to know you question – If you had a week to fully explore something, all expenses paid, what would it be and where would you go?
- The Glasgow Women’s Library
- Bonnie tries to pet a peacock
- Katie’s 1 Cool Explorer Gal – Isabella Bird
- The Lady of the Rocky Mountains (Gal’s Guide Library)
- 2019 Graphic Novel (Amazon, French Edition)
- Born in 1831
- Early life
- Stickley or not a great Victorian, you decide!
- Tumor
- Doctor diagnosed “travel”
- Scotland for healing
- Politically minded
- No formal education
- Travel to America
- An English Woman in America (Amazon)
- Australian travels
- Sandwich Islands
- Ride Astride
- The Lady of the Rocky Mountains (Gal’s Guide Library)
- CORRECTION: We said on the show Edan Park and were not sure. It’s Estes Park (Visitestespark.com)
- Jim Nugent “Rocky Mountain Jim” (pic below)
- Isabella was maybe the “Cougar of the Rocky Mountains”
- Isabella got married
- “Allergic to sitting still”
- More travels
- White Devil story
- Distinctions
- 1904 death with her bags packed for another trip
- More about the house burning
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