Tucson
Christmas greenery looks a bit different in the desert. Merry Christmas from Tucson, Arizona. From another desert garden. And a hummingbird adds some sparkle. These images are my contribution to Travel Photo Thursday. You can see more contributions at Budget Travelers’ Sandbox. Have a wonderful holiday and I’ll see you in a couple of weeks. [...]
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Destination: Tucson, Arizona Event: Tucson Festival of Books, 2011 [See more photos on my Facebook page] The Tucson Festival of Books has grown rapidly in its three years. Organizers say there were 100,000 people there in March 2011, and I think that is true.
TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS I’m taking a bit of a break today so I can read FAMOUS AUTHOR’s latest book. That is because I am the volunteer driver for FAMOUS AUTHOR when he comes to the Tucson Festival of Books on March 12 and 13. You can meet him and a couple hundred other authors [...]
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The Great American Road Trip Destination: Southern Arizona Book: Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton (1992) Welcome to my part of the country. Somehow when choosing a book to represent Arizona, I could not resist fastening on my own little corner–southern Arizona–desert country. Like New Mexico, Arizona’s spectacular scenery climbs from desert to mountain [...]
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Destination: Kazakhstan Book: Apples Are From Kazakhstan, The Land That Disappeared by Christoher Robbins (Originally published in 2008, NEW release in paperback, September 2010) The title sounds like a gross exaggeration. Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared. And the book is packed with outrageous statements like that.
Photo Slideshow 36 Hours in Tucson
Another view of 36 hours in Tucson, after the New York Times article.
Deep gratitude to Monica Bhide for her guest posts, which brought scads of new readers to A Traveler’s Library. I have rearranged stuff, added buttons and made it easier for you to subscribe to A Traveler’s Library, and I hope you will take advantage of that big orange button to the right. I woke up [...]
