Announcement: Winner #5 in the Great Travel Literature GiveawayII is LILY KWAN. Five more daily prizes plus the Grand prizes, so leave your comments, tweet, and subscribe by e-mail for extra chances to win. See the contest rules. The Great American Road Trip Destination: Kentucky Book: No Heroes by Chris Offutt
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Several months ago, my friend Donna Hull who writes about boomer adventure travel, tagged me in a fun little blogger game. I had to write a post about travel secrets. I did. It was a popular post. See My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets of Greece. and that was that. But that was not quite [...]
Destinations: France, Bruges, Amsterdam Traveler’s Library: Growing Daily with guidebooks, maps, notes…. It occurred to me that you might be interested in the trip planning process that goes on in our book-filled house. So here goes.
Destination: Newfoundland Book: February by Lisa Moore (NEW 2010) Sometimes I am amazed at how close my reading edges to my life and world events. February, a beautifully lyrical book released in February 2010, bumped up against current events with its retelling of an accident on an oil rig . In the news as I [...]
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Destination: England Movie: Robin Hood (2010)a Ridley Scott movie, Starring Russell Crowe and Kate Blanchett
Announcement: We have the Third and the Fourth Winners in the Great Big Travel Literature GiveawayII: Christa Joy has selected The Invisible Mountain. Rebecca Waer has selected Lobster Chronicles. Don’t despair–seven more prizes to go plus four grand prizes. Destination: The Whole World Books for the Travel Library: The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World…Via Its [...]
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I’m a World Travel Blogger. First you read about the world. Then you plan a trip. You have become a world traveler.
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: West Virginia Movie: October Sky (1999) There is no question in my mind that West Virginia would like to be known for more than coal mining, and yet the industry so defined the state, that a movie set in a coal mining town seems a perfect introduction to [...]
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Destinaton: Chonquing, China Book: Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two Journeys in China September, 2009,(presently in 3rd printing) by Jane Carswell Winner Whitcoulis Travel Book of The Year 2010 Not until we are lost do we begin to discover ourselves. Henry David Thoreau. There are always two journeys, the outer and the inner. Jane Carswell.
