By now you know that I love a story about a booklover who turned their passion into a bookstore. But what’s even better is a traveling bibliophile who parlayed their interests and zeal into a traveling bookshop. Saint Rita’s Amazing Traveling Bookstore Textual Apothecary is more than Rita Collins’s passion project, it’s her gift to the world.

Rita Collins’s white Ford transit van has more than 100,000 miles on it, earned on drives through all but 10 of the United States.

Parked in front of The Grand Bakery in Dadeville, Ala., on a recent cloudy morning, she watched as a woman walked by, glanced at the van, did a double take, and hesitated.

“It’s a bookstore,” Collins said with her big, characteristic smile. “You can go inside.”

“Oh my Satan!” the woman exclaimed. “I’m a fool for books!”

You can read all about this delightful piece about a bookstore on wheels.