In 1996, travel writer published Notes from a Small Island, a sort of farewell tour before moving back to the US with his family. Now, 20 years later, once again living in England, Bryson travels around the U.K. again, mostly to towns and attractions he hadn’t been to in the previous book. The Road to Little Dribbling is the story of this second trip. I’ve read all of Bryson’s travelogues, and he’s always been cranky and somewhat haughty when faced with his fellow humans’ stupidity. […]
Sweet, merciful Jesus, what a dumpster fire: A real-time review of Tales of a Female Nomad
-This was a total impulse pick-up. I saw the title on my new audiobook app and downloaded it. I have a soft spot for travel memoirs. Even when they’re not great, I can usually get something out of it. This woman says she’s lived in a lot of places I want to go to. I’m sold. -When Rita Golden Gelman was 48, she found herself on the verge of divorce. Unhappy in her life, unsure of how she got to where she was, and feeling […]
They Don’t Have a Standing Army
In about a week my husband and I are heading to Costa Rica. The fact that I just finished this book yesterday should probably tell you the state of our planning. We have plane tickets. We have a hotel for the first and the last nights. That’s it. My husband visited Costa Rica about a month after we started dating, and he’s wanted to go back ever since. He asked that instead of my regular planning, I just get a guidebook and let us see […]
Oh, the places you’ll go!
It was months after 9/11 when Rory Stewart decided to walk across Afghanistan. The country was in disarray, but despite warnings from the Afghan government, villagers and anyone with a lick of common sense, Stewart insisted on going. One foreign journalist, after hearing his plan, asked Stewart if he’d ever read Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer’s story of an American dumbass who tried to make it in the Alaskan wilderness without any supplies (I know we’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but […]
Lord of the Flies meets American Psycho meets The Rum Diaries with just a dash of Seven Psychopaths
The world is getting smaller. Thanks to the Internet that unites people across the globe and airplanes that can make journeys in hours that once took years, virtually nowhere on earth in inaccessible. Mostly, that’s a good thing. But for world travelers, I’ve heard this is a real bummer. That everywhere they go, they’re surrounded by Guess jeans and McDonalds. That the terrain is basically spoiled by globalization and no place is unique anymore. But what if there were still a place, hidden away, unknown […]
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
I love to travel. Well, I love to daydream about travelling while staying solidly in my own little corner of the earth. I always have an explanation why-it’s too expensive, I can’t take the time off, I need to brush up on the language, I don’t know if it’s safe to go alone, I don’t know if I like anyone enough to travel with them…the list goes on and on. It’s not that I’m (consciously) looking for excuses. It’s that we’ve all been conditioned to […]
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