Next stop, India, where she saw the Taj Mahal when there were virtually no other tourists present. But this was Sabina Shalom, and everything worked out fine. They found refuge in a sparsely furnished house far from town in what could’ve been a bad situation. She ended up leaving the airport in the company of some men who offered to help her find a place to stay in the chaos of the holiday. So, after visiting her native England and stopping by in Paris to see her lifelong friend Naomi Rothschild, she flew to Tehran, where she missed the meeting with her hosts (they hadn’t gotten her telegram) amidst the crush of new year’s revelers. And on the spot he invited her to come and stay with them in Tehran. He happened to be an acquaintance from Bogotá who was married to an Iranian woman. Shalom is the sort of person who would literally bump into a friend at far-away London’s Heathrow Airport (she clipped him with her backpack).
It worked, too, ultimately cementing her relationship with Marco that had been floundering in suburban Florida once her two sons had grown and left home. She undertook the journey as a sabbatical from her marriage, where she felt her life was stagnating, despite the satisfaction she got from volunteer work like hospice care and reading to the blind. She traveled by herself, but not because she was unattached. But the thing that she is perhaps best known for is her book, A Marriage Sabbatical, that was published in 1984 about her 50,000-mile trip around the world in 1976.
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