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France on Friday Comments until midnight on Bastille Day (July 14) make you eligible for France prizes. See the News Page for another book giveaway. Destination: Paris Movie: Amelie (2001) (English subtitles) But surely you have seen Amelie? Have a listen to a piano version of the sound track:
I DO hope that you check the page entitled News once in a while. Yesterday’s news: The blog Travel Babel gives readers up-to-date-news and winter sports suggestions. Based in Colorado, but roaming the world. Author Claire Walter‘s current post lists travel literature that has fueled her travels and gives a nice tip of the hat [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: West Virginia Movie: October Sky (1999) There is no question in my mind that West Virginia would like to be known for more than coal mining, and yet the industry so defined the state, that a movie set in a coal mining town seems a perfect introduction to a [...]
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Destinaton: Chonquing, China Book: Under the Huang Jiao Tree: Two Journeys in China September, 2009,(presently in 3rd printing) by Jane Carswell Winner Whitcoulis Travel Book of The Year 2010 Not until we are lost do we begin to discover ourselves. Henry David Thoreau. There are always two journeys, the outer and the inner. Jane Carswell.
My April trip took me to Fredericksburg Texas, and also to the Lyndon B. Johnson childhood home and the “Texas White House”, his ranch on the Pedernales River in beautiful Texas hill country. Blue bonnets were in bloom, and we were reminded of the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson. Although we could take photos inside [...]
Great American Road Trip Destination: New Jersey, (plus a little of Connecticut and Cooperstown, New York.) Book: Independence Day (1995) by Richard Ford. This Book won PULITZER Prize for Literature AND Pen-Faulkner Fiction Prize. Let’s hope that Richard Ford is not reading this.
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Great American Road Trip Destination: Buffalo, New York Book: City on the Edge by Mark Goldman My great aunt Maude Bartlett lived in Buffalo with her husband, dearCarlos. She always referred to him as though his name had three syllables. I never visited Aunt Maude in Buffalo, and Carlos died before I was born.
Destination: Iran Book: Inge Morath: Iran Additional text by Monika Faber and Azar Nafisi and edited by John P. Jacob. Review copy provided by the publisher, Steidl, Germany.
