Road Trip
Pet Travel Thursday Destination: The American Road Trip Book: Travels With Charley, In Search of America by John Steinbeck By Edie Jarolim Woe to the author who becomes a classic, especially one who has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. The uninitiated reader — or the one who only knows the books assigned in [...]
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Destination: Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada Book: , Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis “It has been such lovely weather that just to be alive was all one wanted….” Eleanor Roosevelt in letter to Isabella Greenway in August, 1906. Isabella Greenway was the first female member of Congress form Arizona and built The [...]
Destination: Colonial Delaware Book: by Libby Cone (Self published via Smashwords and available on all forms of electronic media) I read Libby Cone‘s first historic novel, , about the German occupation of British Channel islands and enjoyed it very much. In the newer book, she’s writing on her own without a graduate committee looking over [...]
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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The Great American Road Trip: A directory Are you planning a Road Trip? Here’s a state-by-state directory of the travel literature and travel movies we have recommended in the past 14 months, as we crossed the country on the Great American Road Trip. Find each one by plugging info into the search box on the [...]
The Great American Road Trip–FINAL STOP Destination: Hawaii Book: The Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport A GUEST POST BY Kris Bordessa Try as you might, when you plug a mainland address into Mapquest with an address ending on any of the Hawaiian Islands, you’ll get a message saying that they can’t find a suitable [...]
THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP Destination: Los Angeles, California Book: Farewell My Lovely (1939) by Raymond Chandler I had not read the hard boiled detective stories for quite a while, and I had forgotten what fun Raymond Chandler can be. I had also forgotten how openly racist and sexist was the society that he wrote [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Nevada (Genoa) Movie: Charlie Varrick (1973) Lake Tahoe may be one of my favorite places in the United States, but it will not do for an example of Nevada for the road trip, since it is split between two states (California/Nevada). In order to get a little more taste [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Oregon Check Music Road for music to take along on your road trip to Oregon. (Appropriately enough, one pick is Joni Harms, a farmer/rancher.) And while you are there, take a look around. Kerry Dexter’s blog has been chosen as one of the 5 best music blogs on the [...]
