Help me find this 20thC travelogue about 2 women on a passenger ship!

June 11, 2018 4:23 PM

Looking for a travelogue written sometime between 1920 - 1960.

I don't remember enough details to get an effective google search going, so am hoping it will ring a bell for someone here! There were two main protagonists -- the book may have even been co-authored. Both were women and they may have been students at a Seven Sisters school. I believe one of them was from Ohio. They traveled by boat up the St. Lawrence river, and stayed for a while with a school alum/friend of the family, then continued out on the rest of the cruise. A lot of time was lavished on shipboard crushes and hijinks. I want to say the title was something peppy and long like "And We Laughed All the Way Home!" Sound familiar to anyone?

posted by apparently to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Best answer: It was not Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner (and friend)? They went to Europe via Canada.
posted by Hypatia at 4:32 PM on June 11, 2018 [8 favorites]

Response by poster: YES! Thank you! This has been driving me crazy for weeks!
posted by apparently at 4:52 PM on June 11, 2018

Well shoot! Maybe you would also enjoy this fabulous journey of two friends, biking cross country, then adventuring on a river boat? The Lure of the Open Road(previously)
posted by Gable Oak at 4:55 PM on June 11, 2018 [2 favorites]

oh hey, she was joined on that trip with Emily Kimbrough who went on to write many amusing travel books herself. She was fond of hiring canal boats with convivial friends and cruising through European waterways and it always sounds delightful.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 8:00 AM on June 12, 2018 [1 favorite]