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How Our Road Trip Looks This Week

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Second Week: Put Your Place on the Map

You have some more time to suggest a movie or book that you would recommend to someone who wants to learn about the place you live.

Three places outside the U.S. have been added so far: India, London England and New Zealand. Want to see how many U. S. states have been added? Here’s a map, with added states in gray/blue.

Week Two Road Trip
Week Two Road Trip

Because several states have been mentioned numerous times, there are still a lot of empty spaces. Don’t be left out. Erase those yellow spaces.

Add your place to the road trip by answering the VERY SHORT survey and give us a book or movie that represents YOUR place.

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Our Road Trip So Far

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First Week: Put Your Place on the Map

Three places outside the U.S. have been added: India, London England and New Zealand. Want to see how many U. S. states have been added? Here’s a map, with added states in maroon.

Week One Road Trip Places on the Map
Week One Road Trip Places on the Map

Don’t be left out.

Add your place to the road trip by answering the VERY SHORT survey and give us a book or movie that represents YOUR place.

Poll Answers Revealed and Mexico Re-visited

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Baja California Sud beach

When Vice President Joe Biden warned people to stay home because of the H1N1 flu, and travel writer Peter Greenberg responded that he was going to happily travel to Mexico on empty airplanes and stay in empty hotels, we decided to ask readers if they agreed with Joe or Peter. Or perhaps they wanted to wait and see. You can see the results of the poll now, but here’s a hint. Travelers visit A Traveler’s Library.

Mexico suffered more than any other country from the flu epidemic, and their tourism industry suffered mightily. I’m thinking about Mexico now because I’m reading a book about Baja Mexico, which I will be talking about here soon. I was intrigued to see that Peter Greenberg’s newsletter (and web site) revisited the question of Mexico and the flu. San Diego announced an event to promote Baja California tourism.  And the U. S. State Department dropped their Travel Advisory against travel in Mexico as of May 15.

Personally, although I live near the border, in a U.S. town that was part of Mexico until the mid 1850’s, I have not traveled widely in Mexico. One wonderful week in Guadalajara and two memorable trips to the village of Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, which I wrote about at Velvet Escape’s Blog. That’s it. In the next few days, I want to talk about some books that I read several years ago about Mexico, and then a newer book about Baja in the  hope that you have not abandoned Mexico as a possible destination.

Photograph by Giandomenico Pozzi, from Flickr.

Have you traveled in Mexico?  Have you read about Mexico?  Share your experiences here, please.