Upgrade Your Travel Experience
I am not a gardener, and not since a young lad have I even spent much time working my hands into the soil. My observations on the parallels of gardening and travel are courtesy of a recommend read, by author Margaret Roach. I first heard of Margaret’s story from fellow online personality Pam Slim. Pam [...]
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As you may know, I am a huge train buff – it is my number one preferred mode of transportation (after my own two feet, I suppose). So I was excited to receive a copy of Tom Chesshyre’s Tales from the Fast Trains – with such a fun cover, I expected to lap up stories [...]
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There is perhaps a slight irony in an article with the words “transformative journey” in the title reviewing a book called “The Queen of the Road.” The book, written by the cheeky and tickle-the-funny-bone hilarious Doreen Orion, came into my presence per her own recommendation during my search for great reads while on the road. [...]
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As I sit on the plane at the start on a new journey, I have just finished reading about the end of another. The story was in Over the Top and Back Again: Hiking X The Alps, and the journey itself was both long and extraordinary (not always in a good way); the book is [...]
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Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and if you’re thinking about a special gift to give someone (including treating yourself), how about a copy of the book Letters to Zerky? Letters to Zerky is part lost love letter and part travel tale, but the book itself is a story of its own. The story [...]
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I have always called myself a spiritual person, but not religious. I do believe something big and magical must be going on out there, but I’m not so sure modern society has it pegged. Nonetheless, questions of this sort were swirling around my mind as a beautiful copy of Whereabouts Press’ book, Traveling Souls – [...]
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We’ve talked at times around here about experiential travel. But what exactly IS this wordy concept anyway? It’s one of those things that’s hard to put your hands on and touch it, feel it. That’s why my ears perked when I saw the preview notes for Lyn Fuch’s new book, Sacred Ground and Holy Water: [...]
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I had heard of the Chicken Soup series of books before, but I didn’t realize until having a further look at this book that quite so many editions of the series had been in print. Then I saw Chicken Soup for the Traveler’s Soul and had to know more. The book jacket states that this [...]
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Sometimes it is hard for me to explain how a book gets my attention. Today’s recommended reading, Whatever You Do, Don’t Run, certainly has some curb appeal (don’t run? why not?). But then I realised that it was a journal/diary/story about the life of a safari tour guide in Botswana. As an ‘employee’ of the [...]
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Have ever been at a crossroads in life, a point where you were actively looking for the next thing but weren’t sure what you were looking for? That’s exactly where we find Erik Mirandette in his travelogue, The Only Road North. It’s not just an emotional travel tale, but but in fact a powerful, visceral [...]
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