An engaging personal narrative about growing up in the South and leaving that region to explore a 'larger' world. The first generation of her family to attend college, Kat Meads breaks with long-time family tradition and leaves her agrarian 'roots' to wander rootless: around the country. 'Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and I gotta ramble, ' she writes in the books' opening essay. These essays give us a writer who is able to take us along as she...