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Pet Travel Book Club Destination: New Hampshire Book: Following Atticus: Eight Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship (September 2011) by Tom Ryan CONTEST IS CLOSED. NOTE: This is the continuing book club run by Edie Jarolim of Will My Dog Hate me. Win a signed copy of Following Atticus by commenting here, OR at [...]
Double Celebration today. This post on a Paris book and an Announcement. TA-DA! I am launching a photo e-book on Amazon for Kindle and on Barnes and Noble for your Nook. I have expanded and converted my blog post called Ten Places to Eat Cheap(er) in Paris into an e-book. Check it out. (And if [...]
Destination: The Western United States Book: Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried (2010–New paperback edition in 2011) The reader gets more than his/her money’s worth with the fascinating book, Appetite for America. A biography, a history of the western expansion of [...]
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Destination: Mexico City Book: Mexico City, Out and About (2010) by Kenneth and Karen Basile. When you pick up Mexico City, Out and About, you will not mistake it for a normal guidebook. No way you would lug this 3-lb book around in your backpack. But if you are planning a trip to Mexico City, [...]
Destination: Paris Movie: Avenue Montaigne (2007) Why do I view so many French movies? So I can see their settings, of course. While Ken and I took a bus tour that traveled down the Champs Elysee of Paris, we did not take the walk suggested in Paris Movie Walks, (Pg. 72) that traverses the fashionable [...]
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Alaska Movie: Insomnia (2002) (Note: The photographs here were taken by Alan Hull, and supplied by the blog My Itchy Travel Feet. Although they reflect the beauty of Alaska, they are not from the same area as the film.) Two kinds of people live in Alaska. Those who were [...]
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Destination: Newfoundland Book: February by Lisa Moore (NEW 2010) Sometimes I am amazed at how close my reading edges to my life and world events. February, a beautifully lyrical book released in February 2010, bumped up against current events with its retelling of an accident on an oil rig . In the news as I [...]
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