A Summer in Italy and Amore
After hitchhiking my way through Italy with two girlfriends when I was only 20 years old, it sparked an interest in this remarkable country that I desired to know more about.
That summer adventure would result in nine more trips over the years with family and friends. I chronicled those travel excursions that took place within a 45-year span in journals, resulting in the writing of this book.
Travel back in time and experience a summer in Italy and more while reading this extraordinary memoir.
A Summer in ’69
A Summer in ’69 is the true story of three college coeds who took a summer vacation in Europe and discovered more than just a travelogue. Dee Davidson and two of her girlfriends worked and hitchhiked their way through Western Europe in 1969.
She kept a diary of their adventures and wrote about how three naïve young women from the Midwest tried to take the world by storm. Their inauspicious start as maids in West Germany and waitresses in Switzerland, led them to travels in a dozen countries that were often fun, educational, exciting and sometimes “unfortunate.”
Ultimately, this coming-of-age memoir is also a wonderful journey for three young women that is as unforgettable for them as it will be for readers. “Our limited budgets never got in the way of our extravagant appetites for seeing and doing as much as we could possibly do in the short amount of time we had.” After author Dee Davidson Dosch ran across the diary she kept during that summer of 40 years ago, she writes about how much that experience shaped her future.
“I wanted to tell a personal story that shaped much of who I am today. I learned early on to appreciate diversity in people and places through the many places I was able to visit.” Dosch has worked in the medical field and secondary guidance and counseling. She is the mother of three, the grandmother of four and lives near Springfield, Missouri.
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A Summer in ’68
Fifty years ago, America spent a year that changed the world, in what was described as a nation “out of control” during the very divisive Vietnam War, with protest and tragedy on the home front between the generations as the young revolted against their elders and authority.
During this tumultuous time in the history of our country, I was trying to learn some “self-awareness,” while living away from home for the first time. My story takes you on an adventurous journey of fun, recreation, and excitement in the Colorado Mountains, where I became a young adult while learning about life on my own.
This true story took place in A Summer in ’68, when I spent my three-month college break working as a hotel maid at the Estes Park Chalet in beautiful Rocky Mountain National Park.
At age 18, I had the opportunity to enjoy a working vacation, learning about myself with approximately fifty other college students doing the same thing. For those who couldn’t be there, come along as we go back in time to work and play in this Rocky Mountain High resort town.
About the Author: Retired from the medical field, Dee Davidson Dosch grew up in a rural setting in southwest Missouri, the only girl with five brothers in a large Catholic family. The author lives in Springfield, Missouri, where she spent most of her life. “I lived away for almost 20 years in Colorado and Washington State before returning to my home town.” She is the mother of three adult children and the grandmother to five. Her first book was what followed, A Summer in ’69.