More and more I’m becoming excited about travel anthologies. I’m constantly busy, sometimes so much so that it’s difficult to find the time to sit down and read a book straight through. Seeing it sitting on my shelf, crying out to me to be read, I’ll pick it up again after a few days or […]
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Great Journeys of the World
It’s hard to find much better writing or photography than in a National Geographic magazine. So when I found a book of theirs at a liquidation sale, I made no hesitation in snatching it right up. Great Journeys of the World, the hardcover version, was beautifully bound with great pictures and intriguing story titles, so […]
The 10 Best of Everything: National Parks
Normally I hate lists. I make them all the time for groceries, things I need to do, etc., that I hate them in any other form. I don’t want to see them in blog posts, in magazines, and especially not in books. But then I saw National Geographic’s 10 Best of Everything: National Parks with […]
The Official Guide to the Smithsonian
Last week I wrote two brief guides to visiting the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. You can read them both here, in part one and part two. But if you really want to explore the Smithsonian, you need to get to the core of all of the goodies in their buildings, then you should pick […]
Country Driving
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler, published in 2010, is one of those books which seems to have sat on my shelf much longer than it should. After reading another book by Hessler, River Town, I was looking forward to what I viewed as a sequel. In a way that is what […]
An Idiot Abroad
An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read in any genre. That only makes sense, since it is presented by actors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. What doesn’t make sense, though, is that it’s not actually a book. It’s a British television show that has, […]
The South Pole
There was perhaps no greater achievement in exploration and adventure at the time of Norwegian Captain Roald Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole shortly before Christmas in December, 1911. And more than 100 years later, Roald Amundsen leading a trip to the South Pole is still thought of as an incredible attainment and the crowing […]
Bangkok Babylon
I have read countless armchair travel stories about authors making a journey to a destination which they find noteworthy enough to write a book about. Heck, I even wrote one myself! I find most stories I read fascinating, as the authors paint a curious picture of a locale that many of us may never get […]
