This book is about marriage, how it changes over time, and how John and Maria overcome some discouraging obstacles. Book One is titled A Trip to Victoria, revealing how the couple enjoy their honeymoon with the romance, enthusiasm, and passion to be expected with newlyweds. Book Two is titled A Trip to Vienna. The second trip takes place fifteen years after the honeymoon, when the relationship has grown cold and the partners have grown apart. While in Vienna, John and Maria reignite their love and appreciation for one another. They enjoy the old city of music, along with its wonderful architecture, history, chocolate, and fine food. Book Three is called A Trip of Fantasy. This experience takes place fifteen years after they had their second honeymoon in Vienna. Maria's doctor has given her a booklet to help them keep the fire of romance burning strong. It's a collection of romantic scenes to stimulate their continued communication and affection after thirty years of marriage. They read the book together, have some laughs, and sometimes try to emulate the creative scenes depicted. This story is for men and women who love life and want to make marriage last forever.
About the Author: Rolf McEwen has been a teacher, writer, and photographer for many years. He has published several photo books including Tripping through Oregon, Oregon Coast Drawings, Hawaii Pencil Drawings, Mediterranean Travel Drawings, Sketch Art, Portland Images - Travel Photos of Oregon, Salem Images, Seattle Images, Travel Hawaii - A Photo Montage, Dramatic Images, Images Black and White, Explosion of Color, Flower Wave, Urban Art, and Light Wave - Fluid Photos. He has written plays including The Honeymoon, Mad Love, Inspector Strangelove, Love Will Find a Way, The War, The Joseph Story, Esther the Queen, The Institute, Cranking Up America, and The Fan. He created adaptations for Moliere plays including The Miser, The Middle Class Gentleman, Tartuffified, Deceits of Samson, Ladies of Learning, and The Hypochondriac. He wrote a how-to book regarding theatre arts programs entitled For Love of Drama, describing how to create successful and financially profitable high school drama programs. He wrote a short novel, Mad Man, Wild Woman, about an unemployed, discouraged 19 year old man who falls in love with a woman of the same age who loves him wildly and helps him wonderfully. He published a how-to book about homeschooling entitled Homeschool - How & Why to Do It. His love of humor is apparent in his coffee-table book about how to cope with a boring temporary job--Survival Tactics for Office Workers. He wrote How to Create Wealth--A Book of Wit and Wisdom, Teen Sexuality--A Humorous Guide Book, and a collection of poetry entitled Amazing World. He taught school for 36 years and directed high school plays for 30 years. He initiated and developed a performing arts program for high school students that produced two major performances per year at a theater in Corvallis, Oregon. He directed 71 full-length plays for the stage. He taught high school writing, literature, speech, drama, and photography, and was selected for Who's Who among College Students and Who's Who among High School Teachers. McEwen earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Teaching degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied art, music, history, and literature in Rome and Vienna, and traveled throughout Europe.