New Orleans
Time is running out for Passports With Purpose. My favorite New Orleans hotel stepped up for the third year in a row and offered a 3-night stay in the family-owned, French Quarter Hotel Monteleone for Passports With Purpose. Now, if you hang around Passports With Purpose very much, you know that cupcakes are a recurring [...]
PDF Before you complain, let me make it clear that I know your intentions are purely altruistic. You are not concerned with winning anything. You are just focused on building two libraries in Zambia with Room to Read, so that kids who want to read will have a chance to do so. Just like you, they [...]
I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans. Print PDF
Family Travel Friday Destination: Aquarium Book: Swimmy by Leo Lionni (1963) By Jennifer Close The mystery of the ocean never ceases to amaze children and adults alike. There is lots of information about the ocean, but there is still so much exploring to be done. I have been fascinated with the ocean, its inhabitants and [...]
Congratulations to Susan Johnston, writer of a blog for writers called The Urban Muse, for winning the YakPak student backpack that was part of our Christmas Giveaway. If you’re disappointed, stick around, we have another YakPak to give away in January. Print PDF
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Destination: Anywhere Book: The Witching Hour (1993) by Anne Rice A GUEST POST BY Susan Lanier-Graham Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour helped me discover those elusive travel moments Print PDF
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana (1817) Books: A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (1997) New Orleans Noir, edited by Julie Smith (2007) People of color could be classified in a dozen ways like mulatto, griffe, octoroon, musterfino and more. But whites were classified, also. Besides the Spanish, there were [...]
Destination: Cambodia Books: You Buy ‘em! Because the Khmer Rouge routinely slaughtered anyone in Cambodia who was educated, the country needs to restore literacy to its nation, but how can that happen when children are wandering the dusty roads instead of going to school? It is heart breaking. But you can help. Passports With Purpose: [...]
Destination: New Orleans Venue: The Haunted Mortuary, aka Mansion Mystére I promised I would tell you the spookiest place I had ever visited and here it is. When I was in New Orleans earlier this year, I visited the 1872 Mystére Mansion, “at the very dead end of Canal Street“, that has been certified haunted [...]
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