Nancy Ashmead, no stranger to travel, has visited 36 countries, studied abroad, and covered 4200 miles living aboard a sailboat. Her sense of adventure combined with intuitive skills and esoteric interests strongly influence her work as an artist and a writer and combine in another creative project the Traveler Oracle Deck, mentioned in this story. Retired as co-owner of an award-winning vocational school, she has resided in Southern Oregon for twenty years.