Destination: Mexico City
Book: Mexico City, Out and About (2010) by Kenneth and Karen Basile.
When you pick up Mexico City, Out and About, you will not mistake it for a normal guidebook. No way you would lug this 3-lb book around in your backpack. But if you are planning a trip to Mexico City, the colorful pages will guide you to many places–both major tourist destinations and off-the-beaten-track corners of the huge city. Continue reading A Paseo in Mexico City
Destination: The U.S. Mexico Borderland
Book: The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands (2010) by Margaret Regan Continue reading New Book About Immigration:Travel of a Desperate Sort
Memo to: Readers of A Travelers’ Library
From: A Traveling Reader
This morning was the wrap-up on Twitter by all the people who participated in the blogging marathon. Now I’m off on another sort of marathon–checking in to Likaholix most every day. If you have not seen it, take a look. It would be a great place for you to share your favorite travel books.
I’ve updated my TBR page to indicate travel books finished, travel books started, and a new book on the to-be-read pile that I’m very excited about. (Hint: Paris and food)
Recommendations are flowing in for books to read about Mexico, so maybe we’ll need to go back there soon.
C. M. Mayo writes to take exception to my laughing at “dolphins porpoising”. She says, “Dolphins do porpoise. Can be used as a verb.” Don’t want to belabor the point, because I love the way that Madame Mayo (as she is known at her blog) uses the language, and the ingenuity of her verbs and metaphors. And she has been most gracious about accepting what I wrote otherwise. And she is, after all, the one who teaches writing.
Next Up
This week we are going to visit some travel classics. I will be showing what a babe in the woods I am by reviewing must-read travel books that I never read before. So here come Bill Bryson, V.S. Naipaul, Eric Newby, Paul Fussel, and Bruce Chatwin (the ONE out of these that I had already read.)
Next weekend I will disappear for a few days as the Traveler’s Library morphs into a new form. Stay tuned.