1. Indie Travel Podcast has just published my own review of National Geographic Traveler’s new travel guides to Vietnam and Argentina. (Immodest announcement.)
2. Great Site: Private Library, will help you build a library of your own, and tell you all the sources for books and how to get them at rock bottom prices. Here’s a 3-part series on books on railroads that you may love.
3. A President’s Wife goes traveling: New York Times review of new book about Mrs. John Quincy Adams’ journey from St. Petersburg Russia to Paris.
4.  If you are traveling to bookstores, I would add the Singing Wind Bookstore, located on a ranch in a remote area of Southern Arizona. Fascinating owner and great collection of books.
5. Just launched in May. Trip News Wire.  All the news items a world traveler needs. (March 2015: No longer live)

Don’t you love that map? If you click on it you learn that it shows sites of famous travel adventures around the world. Here’s the caption on Flickr: A poster featuring cartooned representations of worldwide famous stories. Woo Hoo! Let’s Go.