Born in 1987, currently working in the field of public relations, Dinh Thi Thu Hang is a girl who has had a passion for traveling since she was very young.

Dinh Hang always remembers to give herself enough time to travel slowly, enough to enjoy, learn and understand the soul of a land.

`For any traveler, America always appears as something big, full of curiosity and excitement. America is huge, vast, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural… it has become itself.

Before making her dream journey that lasted nearly a year, she made many backpacking trips everywhere from Asia to the Middle East and America.

6 months of `staying` across the United States

As an experienced member of Couch Surfing (a global homestay community), Hang has let many foreign tourists stay at her house for free.

She most remembers the trip to Kansas and being given a place to stay by a large family of 22 people during a reunion of all their children.

During the days with them, Hang heard many interesting stories about the family’s 20 years of volunteering and humanitarian activities in Africa.

Hang took a photo with the Samuelson family in Kansas, USA.

After the trip, she brought back not only maturity but also full of memories.

`Freedom’s Journey`

Walking slowly to feel the land she was passing through, traveling alone but not lonely, Hang made the journey with the mindset of a wanderer, liking to chat with strangers and curiously see the world.

Hang said it was the first time she traveled the mountains and rivers in a mobile home.

Young girl silently admires the natural scenery in Grand Teton National Park.

Besides beautiful memories, she also had to face the pain of emotional breakdown and depression before the trip.

For Dinh Hang, backpacking is a different life.

You don’t have to face bosses or colleagues every day that you don’t like at all.

Closing the dream journey of youth and remembering the days when he could be himself, Dinh Hang recounted his 6-month solo journey in the book Too Young to Die: An American Journey, released to readers this month.

She said she will spend all royalties from the first printing to raise funds for chronic kidney failure patients at Thu Duc district hospital in her personal project `Every book, a hope for life`.