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Reviews of Guides to Vietnam and Argentina

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This just in: A couple of my travel tips are included with this collection of tips on trip planning at Wandering Educators.

Going to Vietnam? How about Argentina? National Geographic Traveler has new guidebooks on those two countries (revised Vietnam, brand new Argentina) and I review them for my friends at Indie Travel Podcast.

Now read on for a guide to a different kind of road trip on the U.S. Mother Road.

5 Travel Book Sites Found on the Internet

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Adventure World Map
World Travel Map
  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.

Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Inspires Sensitive Travel

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Jungle scene
Jungle scene

Destination: Africa

Book: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

A Guest Post by Craig Martin

I read voraciously and used to read even more. Four books a week seems slow when I include the audiobooks that accompany me on countless hours of train and plane travel. But when I’m asked to talk about a book that has motivated me to visit a place or to start traveling, I’m somewhat at a loss. Continue reading Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Inspires Sensitive Travel →