Su Wei-chen has earned an impressive string of literary awards and honors since the late 1980s. Her works focus primarily on the two themes of young romance and life in Taiwan's military dependents' villages. Works in the young romance category include "A Time Shared" (1983), a highly acclaimed early work, and Silent Island (1994), a landmark work that opened new literary horizons in Taiwan in terms of narrative form and the exploration of eroticism. Works set against the backdrop of life in military dependents' villages include "Leaving Tungfang" (1990), now recognized as the standard for this genre. Beyond Su's well-known novels, little scholarly attention has been given to her other works, her essays in particular. In working to link Su Wei-chen's novels and essays together, the concept of "travel" emerges as critical to the intertextual reading process. Images of travel comingle, cross-pollinate, and extend into various related themes. The authors first conduct a referential reading of Su Wei-chen's novels and essays based on the concept of travel. We then leverage relevant research on travel theory to examine the relationships and overlaps among the three aspects of space, gender and literary genre. Finally, we consider how the author uses tourism/travel as a primary literary vehicle to summon the subjective self as well as regularly employs virtual and individual travel to portray imaginings on female identity and self-consciousness.