The folks at gay.com have deputized me once again — this time to go to the movies.

I’ll be at a special advance screening of Eat Pray Love, the new Julia Roberts film based on the bestselling travel memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.

I didn’t catch the book on its initial release in 2006, and only happened upon it midway through my own world journey. Gilbert’s adventure differed greatly from mine — she did longer stays in a handful of countries, and her book is filled with the sort of spiritual discoveries that leave secularists like me shaking our heads. Nevertheless, there are commonalities — as there are between many works of travel literature where a personal story is involved.

I’m looking forward to seeing how they translated this breezy, rambling (and somewhat divisive — people either loved it or hated it) book to the big screen… and who knows, maybe someday in Wander the Rainbow’s future a movie adaptation awaits…

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