My Heart Didn't Mean It: A Story of Love and Adventure

How does a Midwestern woman from rural Nebraska meet and marry an Indonesian jungle explorer? As a dedicated volunteer, Linda Robb Hahn Santoso spent years working in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, and Ghana. Her love of travel and exploration led her to Indonesia, where she fell in love not only with the country's people and culture but also with an Indonesian jungle explorer, master diver, and tour company owner whom she has been married to for 30 years. Linda makes her authorial debut with this deeply personal memoir, sharing the experiences that transformed her life and inviting readers to reflect on their own journeys by asking, Why not? instead of Why? Her international love story is a central theme of the memoir, documenting the unexpected chain of events that transformed an American educator into the wife of an Indonesian explorer and ultimately led her to build a life thousands of miles from the U.S. Drawing on years of international adventures, the memoir offers an intimate account of how pursuing unfamiliar places reshapes one's future.