BEYOND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS – WHEN LUXURY WAS PRIME: A TRAVELOGUE IN TIME is a non-fiction account of travel outside the U.S. by author Lois J. Funk. Its entries, derived from four detailed journals dating from 1957 to 2000, cover four "once-in-a-lifetime" trips coinciding with the author's documented travel journals.

Written in first person and present tense throughout, BEYOND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS gives readers the sense of traveling along with the author, on planes, trains, automobiles, buses, and walks.

 BEYOND THE BRIGHT LIGHTS is available at Amazon.com and locally, at The Kountry Nook, in Pekin, Illinois.

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