Arizona
Celebrating Centennial Today kicks off Arizona’s Centennial Week, the Arizona Territory became the State of Arizona on February 14, 1912. This week A Traveler’s Library will take a look at Arizona from several different angles, starting with folk customs. Destination: Arizona Book: A Border Runs Through It, Journeys in Regional History and Folklore (NEW 2011) [...]
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Christmas greenery looks a bit different in the desert. Merry Christmas from Tucson, Arizona. From another desert garden. And a hummingbird adds some sparkle. These images are my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday. You can see more contributions at Budget Travelers’ Sandbox. Have a wonderful holiday and I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. [...]
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Destination: Arizona Book: Arizona, Way Out West and Wacky, by Conrad J. Storad and Lynda Exley (2011) You’ll be hearing more at A Traveler’s Library in the coming year about the Centennial of my home state, Arizona, the Grand Canyon State. And New Mexico turns 100 in 2012, also, so I’ll talk about them a bit. [...]
I was invited to tour The Nest, at Rawhide in Chandler, Arizona before it opened to the public this month. In one section, you walk through a graveyard and are confronted with zombies who may be real and may be animatronics. I’m not staying around long enough to find out! This photo is part of [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans. Print PDF
Destination: The Western United States Book: Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried (2010–New paperback edition in 2011) The reader gets more than his/her money’s worth with the fascinating book, Appetite for America. A biography, a history of the western expansion of [...]
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Destination: Navajo Reservation PodCast: IndieTravelPodCast Book: Quincy Tahoma: The Life and Legacy of a Navajo Artist If you want to know what I sound like–and what Craig Martin’s New Zealand accent sounds like (although he thinks I am the one with the accent), take a listen at Indie Travel PodCast. Craig interviewed me via Skype [...]
A few news updates relevant to things we have previously discussed. 1. Vagabond Quest has just published two of my Paris pictures, in a special article showing various travel writer’s photos. Which ones? You’ll have to go find them at Vagabond Quest. 2. FEAST online magazine, by Rosemary Carstens covers new books, art and artists, [...]
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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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