California
TASTY TRAVEL Destination: California (Candyland by book) Book: See’s Famous Old Time Candies: A Sweet Story (2005) by Margaret Moos Pick Review and Recipe by Brette Sember One of my family’s favorite vacation activities is to take tours of fun food production facilities. We’ve visited the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA, the Byrd Cookie Company [...]
PDF Destination: California Book: California: On-the-Road-Histories by Victor Silverman and Laurie Glover Print PDF
Note: Please mosey on over to Mara Purl site and see her big rave about A Traveler’s Library. Thanks Mara!! Destination: Central coast, California Book: by Mara Purl I am reading What the Heart Knows in a pdf copy that was supplied to reviewers by the publisher. It is a combination mystery/romance/contemporary novel set in California, [...]
Hey there, Americans–looking forward to a three-day weekend to celebrate Independence Day? Where will you plan to travel on July 4? Here are five of the most spectacular fireworks displays in the U.S.A. 1. A Capitol Fourth, The Mall, Washington D.C. What’s Special? You’re kidding, right? It is THE place to be–the seat of government, [...]
THE GREAT AMERICAN ROAD TRIP Destination: Los Angeles, California Book: Farewell My Lovely (1939) by Raymond Chandler I had not read the hard boiled detective stories for quite a while, and I had forgotten what fun Raymond Chandler can be. I had also forgotten how openly racist and sexist was the society that he wrote [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Northern California (Monterey) Book: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck makes poetry of an once ordinary place, Monterey California, and makes mythological figures of working men and women. (A little trick that he specialized in). In the introduction to Cannery Row, he asks: “How can [...]
Destination: Hollywood Book: Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes about the Stars and Legends of the Movies! by Stephen Schochet I’m breaking some new ground here. First, I haven’t posted on a Saturday for a long time. But when I returned from France, I realized that I would never be able to cover all the very [...]
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Destination: California, USA Book: Kiss the Sunset Pig (2006) by Laurie Gough A GUEST POST by Claire Algarme It is a smooth ride along California Interstate-5 while I gaze out at the beautiful landscape before me. I am on a thruway bus going to Bakersfield where I will ride the Amtrak. My friends think I [...]
Continuation of Rushed Road Trip, about a quick trip from Arizona to California. Good friend Susan Lanier Graham writes about WOW moments at Wander with Wonder. Here’s what made us go WOW! on this short road trip. Just keep your eyes open, and you will find it too. (A puzzle, a view, a movie star, [...]
