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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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)
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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The Great American Road Trip Destination: Indiana Movie: Hoosiers (1986)
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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 [...]
Summer Doldrums
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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