Destination: Nepal Movie: Unmistaken Child (2008) I gasped as the camera panned over a crystal steam and showed a misty green valley shadowed by the moutains that climbers dream of. The camera tracks characters through the otherworldly narrow passageways between rough stone buildings that could just as well have been built in Middle Ages Europe [...]
This is a fun film to go with our review of Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad. The film is obviously aimed at children, but still, it reminds us of how rail travel has changed. The station at the beginning is Washington D. C.’s Union Station, and the ending of the film (after the [...]
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THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP Destination: Los Angeles, California Book: Farewell My Lovely (1939) by Raymond Chandler I had not read the hard boiled detective stories for quite a while, and I had forgotten what fun Raymond Chandler can be. I had also forgotten how openly racist and sexist was the society that he wrote [...]
Destination: Egypt Movies: Many Don’t Pay the Camel Driver until You Get to the Pyramid Guest Post by Traveler’s Bro “About Egypt I shall have a great deal more to relate because of a number of remarkable things which the country contains…” Herodotus, The Histories Pin it
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Northern California (Monterey) Book: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck makes poetry of an once ordinary place, Monterey California, and makes mythological figures of working men and women. (A little trick that he specialized in). In the introduction to Cannery Row, he asks: “How can [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day. If you need a sound track for the day of romance, head over to Music Road for some great recommendations. If you want to know about the love life of a famous Navajo painter, we’re telling not all, but some about Quincy Tahoma and his ladies. Here’s a guest post about a [...]
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