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Meet Jessica Voigts: Culture Travel Tuesday

Jessie Voigts
Jessie Voigts in Scotland

Today we get to know a bit more about our Culture Travel Tuesday contributor, Jessica Voigts. Regular readers of A Traveler’s Library are familiar with Jessie, since she has been an almost monthly contributor for many moons.  She has been bringing us synopses of interviews with authors from her wonderfully useful website Wandering Educators.  Don’t be fooled by the title–teachers are not the only ones who can benefit from the broad array of travel advice offered at W.E. Take a look at the many categories on her site and you’ll see what I mean.  But Jessie’s first love is broadening the understanding between cultures.  I am very happy she accepted the assignment of bringing to readers of A Traveler’s Library ideas for travel that deepens our understanding of different cultures. You saw an example last month when she wrote about a museum and battlefield in Scotland. Now for the inside scoop on how her interests developed, and how  it affects her life today and other inside secrets of Jessie.

A Traveler’s Library: In your bio you mention that you majored in International Education. Can you explain that a bit? How is that different from majoring in Education? Continue reading Meet Jessica Voigts: Culture Travel Tuesday

Meet Kerry Dexter: Music Travel Mondays

Kerry Dexter
Kerry Dexter

We’re kicking off this month’s Contributor’s week by interviewing my friend Kerry Dexter.  She’s your friend, too, if you read A Traveler’s Library Great American Road Trip last year, because she provided the musical accompaniment for each and every place we visited.  I enjoyed that partnership with Kerry so much and also am always delighted by her thoughtful posts at Music Road. Even before we partnered on the road trip, I had picked her brain about music while traveling, so it seemed only natural to ask her to use her music travel expertise and contribute Music Travel Monday to A Traveler’s Library.  Last month she took us to Nova Scotia for the Celtic Colours Music Festival at Cape Breton Island.

A Traveler’s Library: Were you a born traveler, or did you come to it gradually?

Kerry Dexter: Are we not all born travelers?  As I was growing up, there were people in my family and in my neighborhood from other parts of the world  I always knew there was a wide world, and that it was made up of real people with real lives. Continue reading Meet Kerry Dexter: Music Travel Mondays

Meet Brette Sember: Tasty Travel Tuesday

Brette Sember
Brette Sember

Two weeks ago, you met five new contributors to A Traveler’s Library. Today you meet a SIXTH.  Brette Sember will be joining us each month for a feature called Tasty Travel. Do you plan your trips around food? Do you find yourself talking about the food on the trip when you get home? Do you like to recreate the dishes you sampled? Then Tasty Travel is for you. We could not have a better person talking to us about food and travel.  The super-productive and energetic Brette is launching THREE cookbooks this year.  She has loads of other books to her credit, which you can learn about at her web site, linked above. AND she loves to travel.  But let’s talk directly to Brette and see what she has to say. Continue reading Meet Brette Sember: Tasty Travel Tuesday