Then, five summers ago on Sanibel Island, Alex had recently been dumped by Sarah. Meanwhile, Alex re-connects with Sarah, his college crush, and they start dating. They realize they love each other (as friends). Poppy and Alex slowly realize how much they mean to each other, and how they feel less lonely with one another.
Poppy pays for the trip out of pocket, but lets Alex think that her magazine is footing the bill.Īs the book flashes back to their past summers, it details their early trips to Nashville, San Francisco, New Orleans, Vail etc. Soon, they reunite in Palm Springs for the first time in two years. Alex has plans to go to his younger brother's wedding in Palm Springs, and invites Poppy to join him there. In present day, Poppy texts with Alex to try to re-connect. While they're there, Poppy decides she wants to find a way to travel for a living, and Alex offers to join her for trips during the summer. Their sophomore year, they take two classes together and go to Vancouver Island together that summer. They're fairly different people - Poppy had been bullied growing up, while Alex was not, Poppy's family is loud and weird, while Alex was raised by a single father - but they hit it off. They ended up carpooling home at the end of the year because they're both from Linfield, Ohio.
It describes how Poppy and Alex met as freshmen at the University of Chicago, twelve years ago. Her current best friend, Rachel, encourages her to reach out to Alex.įrom there, the book jumps back and forth between the past and present.
The last time she'd traveled with Alex was two years ago to Croatia, and there has been a rift in their friendship since then. In present day, Poppy is now working as travel journalist for an upscale travel magazine, Rest + Relaxation. The book opens five summers ago, with Poppy Wright, a travel blogger, on vacation with her best friend Alex Nilson, a high school literature teacher, on Sanibel Island. They get together, he moves to New York and she quits her travel journalism job to write a local column called "People You Meet in New York". She eventually realizes what she really wanted all along was to feel less lonely, and that she feels that way when she's with Alex. They part with Poppy needing to figure out what she wants. In present day, they reconnect and take a trip together to Palm Springs. Their friendship stalls when they finally kiss. As the book recounts their trips over the years, Poppy realizes she loves Alex, but they want different things (him - stability her - spontaneity and adventure). She does a summer trip each year with her best friend from college, Alex. The one-paragraph version: Poppy is a travel-blogger-turned-travel-journalist.
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