Book prescribes travel cure

Whether you are recovering from an illness, getting over a lost love, exhausted from everyday stress, celebrating a milestone or reinventing yourself, a new book called “Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need To Go?” has suggestions on destinations and activities that match your frame of mind.

The new $20 paperback from Berkeley-based Seal Press, by Karen Schaler, has 11 chapters, each one laying out a different situation and the possible travel remedies. Each chapter starts with a quiz to determine your taste, style and mood, then offers a diagnosis and prescription.

For example, the chapter called “Heartbreak Hotel,” for the lovelorn, can help you figure out whether you’d best be served by a daring adventure, physical activity or relaxation and healing — or some combination. Recommended adventures include shark diving, hang-gliding or car racing. Physically demanding trips include whitewater rafting in Idaho and cave tubing in Belize, in which you float on a river on an inner tube through a series of pitch-black caves. For soothing escapes, spas are recommended.