Road Trip
Today one lucky person will win not only a road trip book for children, but one for adults on the same highway! See details at the end of post. Must act by 3:00 a.m. Monday. Family Travel Friday Destination: Hit the U.S. Highways Books: Kids Love Travel Guides by George Zavatsky and Michele Zavatsky By [...]
Destination: California Book: California: On-the-Road-Histories by Victor Silverman and Laurie Glover
Destination: Mansfield, Ohio Movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) When I hear the term “movie magic,” rather than think of the technology– shadows move around so that we think they are real–I think of the magic as an unknowable X factor that appears for the fortunate few movies. Casablanca had it. Recently The King’s Speech had it. [...]
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Pet Travel Thursday Destination: The American Road Trip Book: Travels With Charley, In Search of America by John Steinbeck By Edie Jarolim Woe to the author who becomes a classic, especially one who has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. The uninitiated reader — or the one who only knows the books assigned in [...]
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Destination: Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada Book: , Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis “It has been such lovely weather that just to be alive was all one wanted….” Eleanor Roosevelt in letter to Isabella Greenway in August, 1906. Isabella Greenway was the first female member of Congress form Arizona and built The [...]
Destination: Colonial Delaware Book: by Libby Cone (Self published via Smashwords and available on all forms of electronic media) I read Libby Cone‘s first historic novel, , about the German occupation of British Channel islands and enjoyed it very much. In the newer book, she’s writing on her own without a graduate committee looking over [...]
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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The Great American Road Trip: A directory Are you planning a Road Trip? Here’s a state-by-state directory of the travel literature and travel movies we have recommended in the past 14 months, as we crossed the country on the Great American Road Trip. Find each one by plugging info into the search box on the [...]
The Great American Road Trip–FINAL STOP Destination: Hawaii Book: The Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport A GUEST POST BY Kris Bordessa Try as you might, when you plug a mainland address into Mapquest with an address ending on any of the Hawaiian Islands, you’ll get a message saying that they can’t find a suitable [...]
