<p><em>Why Go There?</em> takes readers on unusual tours to nineteen very different countries -- from Easter Island&#39;s Rapa Nui festival to the military rooms that were carved out inside the Rock of Gibraltar; from Panama&#39;s mola-makers on a small San Blas island to conversations with the people in Newfoundland who welcomed the passengers stranded there during the 9/11 crisis.</p><p>World traveler Carole J. Gariepy includes more than two hundred photos with her <em>Why Go There?</em> stories, helping readers feel like they are taking the journey too -- and hopefully, they too will gain understanding, acceptance, and caring for people of other cultures as Gariepy has from her travels.</p>