pen4hire on August 20th, 2010

Destination: Cuba Movie: The Buena Vista Social Club,(1998) Director Wim Wenders. Winner of Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award. Although I blather on here about books and movies that inspire people to travel to places, I can  point to a relatively few that have actually lit a fire in me–given me an obsession. Yes, there have [...]

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pen4hire on August 18th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip Destination: The Great Lakes, Middle America (U.S. and Canada) Book: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the GREAT LAKES (2008) by Ted McClelland

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pen4hire on August 17th, 2010

Destination: Greece Book: Ionia: A Quest,  by Freya Stark, new edition of a travel classic Read a terrific interview with Freya Stark in her eighties. (This is the third of a series of posts about women travel writers, in conjunction with the release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love)

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pen4hire on August 16th, 2010

Destination: England Book: The Red Queen (NEW: August 2010) by Phillipa Gregory Boy, for a small island, and a relatively brief history (after all we don’t know much about them before the Romans) the British sure have had a lot going on.  For all those who despair of ever figuring out all those branches of [...]

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pen4hire on August 13th, 2010

Destination: The World Book: Life is a Trip:The Magic of Transformative Travel (NEW August 2010) by Judith Fein I first met Judith Fein when I was on a press trip in Richmond Virginia. She and her husband Paul took off from the main group tramping through Civil War Battlefields to look for something out of [...]

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pen4hire on August 11th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip Destination: Indiana Movie: Hoosiers (1986)

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pen4hire on August 10th, 2010

July started off with a couple of bangs–We took a 4th of July trip to Carmel and a Bastille Day contest celebrated the month of Independence. But like most bloggers, I noticed the traffic slip away as people give in to the heat of lethargy or take off for vacation.

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pen4hire on August 9th, 2010

I wrote last week about my visit to Paradise, and now I have a guest post on a new hiking site about my visit to Hell. Michael Schürmann, author of Paris Movies Walks has started a new blog and asked me to contribute.  I hope you’ll visit Michael’s Easy Hikes. Now on to an author [...]

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Destination: Yemen Interview with  Jennifer Steil One week from now, the movie Eat Pray Love will (perhaps) be the hot new movie of the summer. The book by Elizabeth Gilbert was enormously successful, and I will be talking about three OTHER women travel writers during this week of hoopla. Sorry, this first interview runs a [...]

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