The Great American Road Trip
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
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
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
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












