Enchanting Bhutan: A Volunteers-for-World-Health Trip of a Lifetime-and Beyond

Barbara Horstmann and her dentist husband, Clyde, along with another dentistry couple, embark on a series of adventures and misadventures during their time traveling to set up a dental clinic in the small and, at the time, primitive country of Bhutan (located in the Himalayas). Death-defying travel, strange food and customs, and human foibles that other travelers may have found daunting were taken on by group leader Clyde with a positivity and love of people that showed no bounds. The book's flowing conversational style will make you feel as if you're traveling right along with this foursome and their newly found Bhutanese friends. Most importantly, the author shares how the experience of visiting Bhutan, which places compassion and a simple harmonious lifestyle as its priorities, gave her own life new direction and meaning. This poignant yet entertaining story may even do the same for you. (Valerie Simosko, artist)