By Teri Rizvi
Erma Bombeck, undoubtedly the University of Dayton’s most famous graduate and the country’s top female humorist, would disagree with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s observation that “all educated Americans, first or last, go to Europe.”
“I always feel you can do Europe in a wheelchair,” Bombeck said before jetting off to Costa Rica for this year’s family vacation. Already on the nonfiction bestseller list, Bombeck’s 10
th and newest book, When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time to Go Home
, tackles the ups and downs of traveling from surviving continental breakfasts to “traveling with three kids and dragging a trailer behind us” on the tail of Ruby’s and Rusty’s RV called True Love.