The Great American Road Trip
Thurber Books
Destination: Ohio
Book: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen and in which almost everything has. James Thurber Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, Columbus, James Thurber, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Ohio, Ohio State University, Thurber House, USA, Walter Mitty
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Destination: Baghdad, Iraq
Book: Barefoot in Baghdad: A Story of Identity – My Own and What It Means to Be a Woman in Chaos (NEW August 2010) by Manal M. Omar
A GUEST POST by Wynne Brown
(You may remember Wynne Brown’s review of Riding by Faith from Mexico to Canada Across America. Now she introduces another new book by another woman motivated by faith–but a different faith and a very different setting.)
Barefoot in Baghdad
Tags: Baghdad, Barefoot in Baghdad, BlogSherpa, Green Zone, guest post, Iraq, Muslim, Wynne Brown
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
Destination: The Middle East and Jerusalem
Book: Shadow of the Swords: An Epic Novel of the Crusades (NEW June 2010) by Kamran Pasha
How you think depends on what stories you have heard. There is, as they say, more than one side to a story. His year I have already read three sides to the story of Richard the Lionheart. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, Israel, Jerusalem, Maimonides, Richard the Lionheart, Saladin
Cuban street scene
Destination: Cuba
Movie: The Buena Vista Social Club,(1998) Director Wim Wenders. Winner of Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award.
Although I blather on here about books and movies that inspire people to travel to places, I can point to a relatively few that have actually lit a fire in me–given me an obsession. Yes, there have been books and movies that made me want to go somewhere, but The Buena Vista Social Club was not just a movie, it was an experience. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Academy Award, BlogSherpa, Buena Vista Social Club, Cuba, Havana, John F. Kennedy, Movie, Ry Cooder, Wim Wenders
Lighthouse on Lake Michigan
The Great American Road Trip
Destination: The Great Lakes, Middle America (U.S. and Canada)
Book: The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the GREAT LAKES (2008) by Ted McClelland Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Canada, great-lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, road trip, Wisconsin
Destination: Greece
Book: Ionia: A Quest, by Freya Stark, new edition of a travel classic
Read a terrific interview with Freya Stark in her eighties.
(This is the third of a series of posts about women travel writers, in conjunction with the release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, classic, eat-pray-love, Ephesus, Freya Stark, Ionia, travel literature, travel writer, Turkey
Destination: England
Book: The Red Queen (NEW: August 2010) by Phillipa Gregory
Boy, for a small island, and a relatively brief history (after all we don’t know much about them before the Romans) the British sure have had a lot going on. For all those who despair of ever figuring out all those branches of the royal family and the numerous (numbered) Henrys and Williams and whatever, historical novels come to the rescue. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: BlogSherpa, Britain, British History, England, historic novel, London, Philippa Gregory
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Destination: The World
Book: Life is a Trip:The Magic of Transformative Travel (NEW August 2010) by Judith Fein
I first met Judith Fein when I was on a press trip in Richmond Virginia. She and her husband Paul took off from the main group tramping through Civil War Battlefields to look for something out of the ordinary–the oldest Jewish cemetery in Virginia. That’s what they do, poor things–live in Santa Fe, travel the world in search of interesting stories, and write and photograph award winning articles. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: author interview, essays, Judith Fein, travel book, travel writer
The Great American Road Trip
Destination: Indiana
Movie: Hoosiers (1986) Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: basketball, BlogSherpa, Gene Hackman, Hoosiers, Indiana, Midwest USA, road trip, travel movie
