Destination: Cemeteries Books: Ghosts in the Cemetery and Ghosts in the Cemetery II by Stuart Schneider FYI: This book was published by Schiffer, the publisher of Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist, which I wrote with Charnell Havens. They gave me a copy for review. I stop along country roads so [...]
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Thank Goodness New Zealand is back in business for travelers, and I’m joining BlogNZ to encourage people to GO. I won’t live long enough to see all the wonders this world has to offer. While I struggle to accept that fact, I can console myself that in two weeks I saw more of earth’s variety [...]
Like a deadly domino game, the unrest keeps coming in the Arab world. Tunisia, Yemin, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Algeria, Jordan. Most travelers are shying away from, for example, tourist-dependent Egypt. In private correspondence, an American who lives there reports seeing 30-200 people in the Valley of the Kings (mostly Egyptians), where normally there would be [...]
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Destination: The Mediterranean and Middle East Book: The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History (2008) by Justin Marozzi (Also available for Kindle) (In England the title is The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus.) This book has become even more appropriate since the wave of unrest broke out in Arab countries. [...]
The Great American Road Trip: A directory Are you planning a Road Trip? Here’s a state-by-state directory of the travel literature and travel movies we have recommended in the past 14 months, as we crossed the country on the Great American Road Trip. Find each one by plugging info into the search box on the [...]
UPDATE: A Traveler’s Library Blog Readers are apparently smarter than all my Twitter and Facebook followers combined. A) they weren’t afraid to guess. B) RAY, a new reader, got the right answer. Congratulations, RAY!! I will be the chauffeur for MARTIN CRUZ SMITH at the Tucson Festival of Books this coming weekend (March 11-13, 2011). [...]
Destination: London Books: Loathsome London by Terry Deary from the Horrible Histories Various Titles from the You Wouldn’t Want To Be… series for children “Horrible” History Makes Traveling to Britain with Kids Fun A GUEST POST by Mara Gorman Grownups tend to think that castles, suits of armor, and ancient towers are automatically interesting [...]
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TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS I’m taking a bit of a break today so I can read FAMOUS AUTHOR’s latest book. That is because I am the volunteer driver for FAMOUS AUTHOR when he comes to the Tucson Festival of Books on March 12 and 13. You can meet him and a couple hundred other authors [...]
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