The Great American Road Trip Destination: Alabama Book: Gods in Alabama (2005) by Joshilyn Jackson There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel’s high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. Pin it
1. Matador. Falling on the floor funny reasons to travel. 2. .:Passion and Light:. Beautifully serious reason to travel. 3. Trip Base Spectacular travel movie locations. 4. Interlink Publishing Their Award-winning inspiring travel books: (I have been having trouble connecting to their site, so let them know if you have a problem.) Syria The Dark [...]
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Place: Calabria, Italy Book: Old Calabria by Norman Douglas (NEW Reissued–2010) I love to time travel with writers from the 19th or early 20th centuries and even earlier. I enjoy seeing a place and its people brought to life in an era before antennas sprouted on top of every mud hut and CNN images reached [...]
France on Friday Returns (This book will be one of those given away in my Bastille Day giveaway, along with a French Collection of reading. Just be the most prolific commenter between July 1 and July 14.) Destination: Brittany, France Book: I’ll Never Be French (No Matter What I do): Living in a Small Village in [...]
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The Great American Road Trip: Florida Destination: Florida Book: Nature Girl, 2006, by Carl Hiaasen I have a lot of serious, thoughtful books in my travel library. Carl Hiassen didn’t write any of them. Pin it
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Destination: Payson, Arizona Book: Woman of the Frontier by Zane Grey Daddy Guy, my grandfather, sat in his rocking chair and read pulp fiction. He particularly loved the Westerns, and probably had read everything that Zane Grey wrote as soon as it was printed (60 Western Books plus many other genres). Zane Grey, nearly forgotten [...]
Destination: Yemen Book: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen: Adventures in the Oldest City on Earth (NEW 2010) by Jennifer Steil She was a woman who fell from the sky in robes of dew and became a city. Jennifer Steil uses this poetic description of Sana’a, the capitol [...]
I DO hope that you check the page entitled News once in a while. Yesterday’s news: The blog Travel Babel gives readers up-to-date-news and winter sports suggestions. Based in Colorado, but roaming the world. Author Claire Walter‘s current post lists travel literature that has fueled her travels and gives a nice tip of the hat [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Atlanta, Georgia Book: A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe (1998) Tom Wolfe is not only a writer, but he plays one on T.V. Dressed in a white linen suit and white homburg hat, he chats amiably–those perfect southern manners on display, of course. Pin it
