Escapism
My April trip took me to Fredericksburg Texas, and also to the Lyndon B. Johnson childhood home and the “Texas White House”, his ranch on the Pedernales River in beautiful Texas hill country. Blue bonnets were in bloom, and we were reminded of the legacy of Lady Bird Johnson. Although we could take photos inside [...]
Destination: Italy and read more about Italy……
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Maine Book: The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island by Linda Greenlaw And don’t forget your musical accompaniment over at Music Road, where Kerry Dexter will introduce you to a Maine fiddler and a list of “storytellers in song” that hail from Maine.
The Great American Road Trip Destination: Vermont Book: South of the N. E. Kingdom by David Mamet (a National Geographic Series called Directions)
Destination: Europe and the Holy Land Book: The Lute Player: A Novel of Richard the Lionhearted by Norah Lofts. (Original 1951, Reprint 2009)
Travel Tuesday On Tuesday, I borrow the phrase Travel Tuesday from Twitter, put down my books and talk about my own travels. Destination: Tampa, Florida Attraction: The Tampa Bay Hotel
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Great American Road Trip: Massachusetts Destination: Cape Ann, Massachusetts Book: Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (2009) by Elyssa East Here we are in a wild, wooded 3,000 acre area next door to Gloucester MA. It may come as a surprise that we are not visiting Gloucester, a tourist mecca and [...]
Travel Tuesday: NYC Destination: Manhattan Hotel: The Warwick William Randolph Hearst, the Donald Trump of his day, made money in the early twentieth century as a media king and a property developer. He collected glamorous friends and stirred up equal parts of envy and admiration.
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