Summary

Chapter Six is titled “Hello, Madame.” Amanda worked off the idea that she could work for three or four months in Calgary nightclubs to pay for up to six months of travel. People would ask Amanda, “What do you do?” to learn about her career. Amanda would answer that she was a traveler, intent on seeing the world. Amanda and her mother traveled to Thailand in 2004 and spent a month wandering the country. Amanda refers to her mother as “a surprisingly mellow traveler” and said the two grew closer during that trip. In 2005, Amanda traveled to Dhaka, Bangladesh. She caught a ride from the airport with a businessman but set out on her own in the city to get a room. She discovered that managers of the hotels were unwilling to rent a room to a single woman traveling without a male escort...