Today you can find Pan American World Airways on TV, but, except for an exhibit like the one at San Francisco International, not at any airport anywhere in the world. But as this hour-long BBC documentary “Come Fly with Me” shows, for over sixty years, from October of 1927 until December of 1991, Pan Am [...]
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Award-winning travel writer David T. Page lives on the side of a volcano. But that doesn’t mean that he spends all his nights sleeping in a lava bed. And you won’t either if you use the second edition of his An Explorers Guide: Yosemite & the Southern Sierra Nevada to plan your next trip to the [...]
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Raising my binoculars to my eyes, I turned my head towards El Capitan, asking myself “Who’s up there today?” I have driven through Yosemite Valley many times since my first visit to Yosemite National Park in 1968, often pulling over to the side of the road to point my camera up at the world’s largest [...]
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(On Saturday, June 25, 2011, at the Book Passage Corte Madera store, the editor and contributors to The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011 will read from their wonderful book. Here are my excerpts from this year’s annual anthology published by Traveler’s Tales; read them and you won’t be able to resist buying a copy for [...]
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I met Canyon Sam at a “Blogging For Authors” class in the summer of 2009 at the Book Passage bookstore in Corte Madera, California. She took the class to learn how to promote her first book, Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History, which was due out in the fall, the culmination of [...]
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Sometimes travel writers are left speechless by the images they see. Sit back and watch this wordless travelogue: YouTube – Human Planet – Web exclusive series trailer – BBC One
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As the shopping days left until Christmas dwindle like leaves on storm-blown trees and rain pelting down in the Bay Area dissuades you from going on a wet and wild shopping expedition, don’t despair! Just finish checking off names on your Christmas gift list while sitting in the comfort of your home and giving the [...]
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My mother used to say to me “When they handed out brains, you thought they said trains, and you missed yours!” While I might debate that point, there is no doubt that the first time around I missed the Bus2Antarctica.
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Peter Hessler’s River Town: Two Years On The Yangtze chronicled his stint teaching English to Chinese students in Fuling when he was a Peace Corp volunteer. With Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present he took a long, hard look at China’s move from its ancient past to its modern, frenetic, Almost-A-Capitalist-Country status. [...]
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