The title snagged my attention first. Since I've written books about finding joy in our journey of life and similar books about our life journey - the topic intrigued me, especially with the main character, Michelle (Shelly) falling back through time to see herself as a senior in high school. I really like the Michelle character. I'm not a huge time travel fan, since you really have to put ALL logic aside to imagine all the things that happen, BUT, it is entertaining and thought-provoking. This ...

Michelle finds herself with a life full of regret and unfulfilled dreams after her husband passes away in 2010. When she is transported back to 1979, she finds herself in a position to influence her younger self into making better life choices. This is pure wish-fulfillment time travel. Who doesn’t wish they could go back in time to convince their young, stupid teenage self to do some things differently, even if those things are not the big decisions that Michelle’s were. I felt like it devolved...

A lot of memories here

On the Sunday that Mt. Saint Helens erupted I was driving back to Portland with a bunch of young Boy Scouts. It was an incredible view, and this story brought that day and a lot of others back to mins.
Thanks for a great story and a wonderful trip back.

I have read The Mine by author John A. Heldt, which is the first book in the Northwest Passage series, so I thought I knew exactly what to expect with The Journey. While the two books do start out pretty much the same, with the main character traveling into the past unexpectedly, that's where the similarities ended.The Journey starts out with the protagonist Michelle trying to get on with life after her husband died. She attends her high school reunion and through a series of events ends up back...

Forty-eight year old Michelle Richardson of Seattle felt she was at a crossroad in her life – her husband had recently died in an accident and with them having had no children, she felt at a loss. The next stage of her life was looking decidedly bleak. The invitation to a class reunion back in her old hometown of Unionville in Oregon felt like it was meant to be. Catching up with old school friends whom she hadn’t seen in more years than she cared to remember meant Michelle had something to look...

Note: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Original Rating: 4.5/5Plot | StoryI loved the first book in this series, The Mine, and so obviously I was expecting a lot from this one. The Journey met all my expectations and even managed to make it’s place in my favourite books. Inspite of increased expectations somewhere I had a bit of a reservation, before starting the book, thinking that how one time travel book can be different from the other one by the same author. And...

The Journey (Northwest Passage #2) (by John A. Heldt)It is Seattle, 2010 and Michelle Preston Richardson is recently widowed. Not sure what she wants to do with her life she returns to her hometown of Unionville, Oregon, to meet up with three of her old friends. When there she goes to an old abandoned Mansion, she exits and finds is back in 1979.Michelle has no where to go, but lands a job at her old High School. There she meets up with her younger self Shelly Preston, and her high school classm...

BOOK SYNOPSIS Seattle, 2010. When her entrepreneur husband dies in an accident, Michelle Preston Richardson, 48, finds herself childless and directionless. She yearns for the simpler days of her youth, before she followed her high school sweetheart down a road that led to limitless riches but little fulfillment, and jumps at a chance to reconnect with her past at a class reunion. But when Michelle returns to Unionville, Oregon, and joins three classmates on a spur-of-the-moment tour o...

Imagine if you suddenly and unexpectedly where thrown into your own not so distant past, and got the chance to meet and interact with your younger self. Would you begin to influence and stir your younger self into a different direction in life, knowing that doing this will undoubtedly change not just your own future life, but also the life of the people near you?Before I started reading this book I did not really know what to expect of it. I was afraid that this was going to be one of those self...