The Great American Road Trip Have you been enjoying Wednesdays on the road?? We’re not back on the road yet, but thought you might look back through the family album at the most popular stops on the road trip so far. Only ten more stops to go and we will have covered the country coast [...]
I hope that Susan Johnston, The Urban Muse, agrees that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, because I’m stealing her idea of offering the 12 days of Christmas posts (Even though mine is more like the 12 Days AFTER Christmas!!) While I’m on vacation (i.e. reading something that I won’t be reviewing, just because I want [...]
Hope Santa brings you everything you want, and lets have a beautiful New Year together. See you in 2011. Pin it
Congratulations to Susan Johnston, writer of a blog for writers called The Urban Muse, for winning the YakPak student backpack that was part of our Christmas Giveaway. If you’re disappointed, stick around, we have another YakPak to give away in January. Pin it
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I’m signing off for a bit of a holiday, but leaving you with a portion of a Christmas letter I first wrote two years ago. Unfortunately, it still rings true. I had to change very little of it. Pin it
SURPRISE! Our regular Wednesday feature, The Great American Road Trip paused for a holiday break. Promises to come back in 2011. Don’t know where the road trip went, but since it was in Wyoming (With a beautiful story) last time we visited, maybe it’s caught in a snowstorm. But we’ll take a look at a newly [...]
Destination: Heathrow, Terminal Five, England Book: NEW 9/2010, A Week at the Airport by Alain de Botton Alain de Botton quoted in The Telegraph (Britain): “I will hate you till the day I die and wish you nothing but ill will in every career move you make.” Pin it
See my list of the best new travel books that crossed my desk this fall. A Traveler’s Library at Wandering Educators.com. A review of one of them is next in line (below) and another new book will pop up tomorrow (above). MIDNIGHT tonight on the west coast. You know what that means? Last [...]
Destination: China Book: City of Tranquil Light: A Novel (NEW 10/2010) by Bo Caldwell And you thought the life of a missionary would be boring? Not when a Chinese bandit chief steals your medicine packages and takes you captive or when soldiers march through your village and make themselves at home in your compound. Pin [...]
