While on her first hiking and camping trip, thirteen-year-old Sammy tries to solve a mystery involving endangered condors while avoiding scorpions, ticks, and embarrassment.

"Ava?s parents are explorers, and the family is traveling around the world to find the rare ghost orchid. On their way, Ava marvels at the wonders around her: a moose in the woods, the starry desert sky, a blue whale swimming under their boat. But her parents? focus is on getting to the ghost orchid before it?s short-lived bloom fades, so they don?t notice the wonders of the journey." --publisher's website.

Presents a travelogue about the authors' pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain, the emotional trials each one experienced along the way, and the lessons they learned about themselves and each other.

"Research shows that nature can restore attention and well-being, and research surrounding music in certain situations has had similar results. However, the combinatory effects of listening to music while in nature has not been studied. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of listening to music through headphones while hiking on attention restoration and positive and negative affect."--from leaf ii.