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Music Monday Destination: Louisiana Artist: Tab Benoit Album: Legacy: The Best of Tab Benoit (Telarc International) NEW. Release Date April 3,2012. By Kerry Dexter
I was inspired to post a few pictures of fog and mist by this lovely misty Ireland photo at Music Road, and a memory of a foggy day in Chicago (left). It also is a challenge to myself, since I tend to leave my camera in its case when the weather turns misty. I need [...]
Today I present you with a puzzle of sorts. What the heck is it?? And what do these things have in common? And why is it a good excuse to visit Tucson, Arizona? (BTW, this post was inspired by a post by fellow travel blogger, Jeanine Barone of J The Travel Authority. See her post [...]
Western Road Trip Destination: Southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas Book: A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family Food and Culture (2006) by Denise Chávez Here at A Traveler’s Library, we seem to be talking a lot about books that tell lives and culture through food. Recently I reviewed the beautiful White Truffles in Winter [...]
Western Road Trip Destination: Tucson, Arizona Book: Teresa and the Cowboy:: un Cuento de Amor Tucsonense, by Mary Ellen Barnes The book cover sandwiches a photograph of Tucson in the 1800′s– with its dirt streets and adobe buildings– between a closeup of white on white embroidery at the top and a leather chaps decoration at [...]
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Family Travel Friday Destination: The American West Children’s Book:Westward Expansion – An Interactive History Adventure by Allison Lassieur Review by Jennifer Close (Like Matinee Wednesday, when Jane Boursaw talked about Western Films, Jennifer is bringing us a book related to the Western Road Trip currently running at A Traveler’s Library.We’ve visited Northern Arizona, Nevada, and [...]
Western Road Trip Skipping northward today, we take a look at some Western history. When you travel in the Western United States, you are surrounded by history–not the centuries-old art and buildings that surround you in Europe, but the more recent history of settler’s trails, ghost towns, and mine camps. Destination: North Dakota Book: Dakota, [...]
TRAVEL PHOTO THURSDAY I would never want to dismiss the beauty of the other Western states, particularly my own–Arizona– but certainly high on my list of favorite Western road trips is southern Utah with its cluster of National Parks and Monuments protecting some pretty spectacular landscape. This series of photos reminds me that although I [...]
