photo Anne Marsh
FILMING of Off the Wall took Anne fiarsh and videog-
rapher Douglas Spencer to the ancient city of Petra.

Layne Christensen

News Reporter
laync@usnews.com

ANNE Marsh had
always wanted to travei
to Mepai.

In 1987, owo vears atter
the death of ber husband,
Don Marsh. the Lyan Valley
resident joined wet]

based tour group and set off
for the Himalayas.

While in Katny:
met Hope Beversr

ck

Ontario. The pair became
friends. In °89, with Marsh on
a year’s sabbatical trom a
Vancouver law firm, they trav-
elled together to India and
Asia, journeying through
Pakistan and along the Silk
Road to China, where Marsh
lett her friend to set off on her

own and spent the neat 10
months trekking through
dand South

with wips to

the Middle . Then tive
years ago, Beverstein phoned
her friend ter ask if she'd travel
to Jordan with

h Spencer behind the
Marsh documented her
tau camelback to the
ancient town of Petra and tea
inthe desert with a Bedouin
woman, a widow like herself.

fen

Women's 7
Her week's journey is pro-
tiled on OFF the Map, a dacu-
mentar sof 13 half-hour
programs on world explo-
ration and human discov
The show re Tha
at 8:30 a.m., Fridays at 3
p.m., Saturdays ar 3 aim. and
Sundays at 11 a.m. Ir also airs
in the U.S. on the Travel
Channel.
1 is one of 26 women
s through 80s who
share their travel experiences
on the show. She's the only

traveller from Western Canada.

ith a

With Spencer and the
show's producer Felice Gorica
now looking towards the
series” second vear, Marsh mits
soon be heading back to the
Middle 1

fe were al sct to go t6
“says the
but Spencer
cancelled due to a work con-
ct. That tip has now tenta-
been rescheduled to
3 busy month for
who we star in the
Vanecaver Community
Plivers production «tl Tausb with
ew Which comes to North
Van's Hendry Hall Jan. 21.

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