Heels to Hiking Boots: Exploring the World to Find the Way Home
AuthorsAdded on January 14, 2026
Description
Home is where the spark is.Born in rural Pennsylvania to an elegant, but emotionally-distant mother, and a free-spirited, adventurous father, Sue Muller grows up in a home where tears are forbidden. As an exchange student in Chile, she is shocked by her host mother’s range of emotions: anger, laughter, and indignation. A world of feelings opens to her, and Sue enters college ready to be someone new.From falling in love with being in love, to building new friendships, Sue embarks on carefree escapades in Europe that eventually land her in hospital. Forced to reevaluate, she heads home to enter grad school and settle down.But her restless heart has other plans.Still searching for a place to call home—in every way—she travels solo to West Africa, immerses herself in counseling and teaching, and treks in the Himalayas. When she finds a love as wild as her wanderlust, Sue wonders: can heart and home finally be one?Heels to Hiking Boots is an extraordinary tapestry of self-growth, hard lessons, and inspiration for anyone yearning for a life of adventure and the courage to pursue what lights them up.Click ‘Buy Now’ to read book 1 of Sue’s story today!
Reader Reviews
Heels to Hiking Boots: Exploring the World to Find the Way Home, by Sue Muller Hacking, is a coming-of-age memoir giving an overview of a girl’s life. She realizes she has a love of adventure early and grows up to find a life partner who matches her desire for adventure. In the opening chapter she’s in a tree imagining herself in the places she sees in National Geographic: Mars, the Sahara Desert, Mount Everest, the jungles of Africa. Growing up on a pig farm in Pennsylvania, she has a mother wh
I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS BOOKI love how Hacking intermixes her emotions, her thoughts, and descriptions. She writes so easily about those feelings, how she connected with others, then reflects back on how her early years formed how she relates. That really makes it interesting. I just wanted to keep reading. The writing is so easy, flowing and perfect. It just sucks me in. I got lost on each word like being right there. For sure baby boomer readers will find it outstanding. But it will also grab
Fearless and funThis real-life life review is an adventure in travel, experimentation seeking self, and moving into life as a compassionate adult who looks forward.
