Stepping into Fountains is a young woman''s odyssey to South America, Appalachia,Mexico, Berkeley and beyond to learn about life outside of sheltered, small-townAmerica in the 1970s. It recounts in colorful detail an unforgettable experienceworking with impoverished children from Colombia''s slums; a summer working in achildren''s home in Appalachia; a road trip in a ''53 Chevy from Kansas to California;selling cookies on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley; traveling north from Panama City tothe United States by local bus; and three months traveling alone throughout Mexico.She wasn''t in Kansas anymore. This odyssey begins in the summer of 1972 and ends inthe fall of 1976.