For quite some time, I purposefully – and quite successfully I may add – avoided reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia. Before even picking it up, I stereotyped the book as a “chick flick” on paper. And to an extent I was right. It is, […]
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The Dharma Bums
I had been itching to follow up On the Road for a while, not sure I really gave Jack Kerouac a fair shot with just one book. I mean, I liked On the Road alright all in all, but it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. There were a few things with the story, […]
The Best American Travel Writing of 2011
It is difficult to fathom looking anxiously forward to the release of a book talking about other people’s travels when I have so many exciting destinations of my own to anticipate. Yet, I impatiently waited at my mailbox this fall for the arrival of the latest edition of The Best American Travel Writing. I have […]
The Black Nile
I love shopping at used book sales – like the ones for libraries trying to clean off some of the shelves – because there are no shortage of good finds. Whether it is at a library sale, a warehouse liquidation, or some other random used book sale, I always seem to find good deals. And […]
In Patagonia
I had childhood fantasies about adventures in far off places. We traveled enough in the United States, and my parents internationally, that is was unavoidable – I would be a traveler, too. And as a young boy, I dreamed of my adventures in places whose names I did not yet know. It was much the […]
Crossing the Heart of Africa
I slid Julian Smith’s book onto the shelf, just to the right of Joshua Slocum’s Sailing Alone Around the World. I had finished it, Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure, and stood before my bookshelf contemplating the story. It wasn’t what I had expected and thus I wasn’t quite sure […]
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