Reclining on my sofa I stole occasional glimpses out the window in between chapters; Denver was getting dumped on by Mother Nature in a serious way. Approximately 20″ of snow covered the ground outside my home and it was still coming down. It almost seemed masochistic to read Peter Rudiak-Gould‘s first book, Surviving Paradise: One […]
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Roughing It
In high school my English Language & Literature teacher made me read Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; I was none too impressed with her for this as I did not care for his writing style. I struggled with every page and have thus held a grudge against the man since. The perfect storm […]
Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?
I’ll be honest, I judged this book by its cover. The title caught my attention as I was thumbing through the stacks while on a day out with my nephews. And when I held a few different selections up to them to choose, they told me to get this one. In hindsight I wish I […]
On the Road
Jack Kerouac‘s On the Road is travel writing as it should be. It is a vivid description of interesting personalities partaking in bizarre adventures that cause them to criss cross the United States for no other reason than to be somewhere else, to experience life in a different place. And that, in my opinion, is […]
The Worst Journey in the World
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.” So Apsely Cherry-Garrard begins the telling of The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic happenings, but particularly the history of exploration there, have intensely interested me since my travels took me there in January of […]
The Hunchback at Notre Dame
About 15 months ago my father and I made a trip to Paris followed by a roadtrip to Normandy, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany. It was an amazing holiday and one I won’t soon forget. It was a great time spent with my father doing something we both love: traveling. One of the highlights of the […]
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