As I was writing this post, the 2010 Bloggie awards were being announced. A beautiful, and always interesting read, Camels and Chocolate won in the Travel Blog category.
The overall winner also won best writing and best design. Needless to say, The Pioneer Woman is a worthwhile stop on your daily blog tour. Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to the Bloggies.
Here’s our February count-down. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: best travel blog, Blogs, Most Popular Posts
Coast to Coast Dust Jacket
Destination: North America
Book: Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America (publisher The Vendome Press 2008) Originally published in French by Editions du Chéne (2008) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: America, BlogSherpa, Canada, Coast to Coast, period photographs, road trip, USA, Vendome Press
Destination: Paris (and the Bronx)
Movie: Julie and Julia
Although everyone touts Julie and Julia as the ultimate foodie movie, it does pretty well as a travel movie, too. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: France, Julia Child, Julie and Julia, Meryl Streep, Movie, Paris
Thanks to Kerry Dexter’s dexterous research, we now have a source for Lobster Ice Cream. The reviewer at about.com did not like it! But that does not deter me.
Here is Ben and Bill’s Chocolate Emporium on the web. Their Bar Harbor location is closed until next month, but they also have a store in Massachusetts–and mail order.
Tags: Bar Harbor, Ben and Bill's, BlogSherpa, food, ice cream, lobster, Maine, USA
The Great American Road Trip
Lobster boat off coast of Maine
Destination: Maine
Book: The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw
And don’t forget your musical accompaniment over at Music Road, where Kerry Dexter will introduce you to a Maine fiddler and a list of “storytellers in song” that hail from Maine. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Acadia National Park, BlogSherpa, culture, Escapism, Greenlaw, Isle au Haut, lobster, Maine, Mt. Desert, USA
Travel Tuesday
Destination: Stockholm, Sweden, The Vasa Museum Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, culture, King Gustav II, Stockholm, Sweden, Travel, Vasa Museum, Vasa Ship
Viceregal Lodge, Shimla, India
Destination: Shimla, India
Book: Shimla – A British Himalayan Town, by Sumit Vashisht
A Guest post by Dr. Jessie Voigts Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, culture, Ghurkas, Gurkhas, Himalayas, India, Kipling, Northern India, Shimla, Wandering Educators
Zora Neale Hurston
Book:Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston, in Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings, part of the Library of America series, Literary Classics of the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, Haiti, Harlem Renaissance, Hurston, Jamaica, Langston Hughes, voodoo
The Great American Road Trip
Destination: Vermont
Book: South of the N. E. Kingdom by David Mamet (a National Geographic Series called Directions) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, David Mamet, Escapism, essays, National Geographic, road trip, USA, Vermont
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