Outside magazine review July 2003

In Wendy Dale's wry, funny Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals: Adventures in Love and Danger the 25-year-old author cashes out of her $500-a-day L.A. copywriting career for "the ultimate luxury item": irresponsibility. Dale spends two years roaming oddball vacation destinations from Beirut to Colombia, taking up with lovers and convicts -- and on occasion, lovers who are convicts -- and barely avoiding the slammer herself.