Chris Elliott’s New How-To Travel Book Free
Christopher Elliott is an award-winning consumer advocate on behalf of travelers, writing magazine features, a syndicated newspaper column, a website and more. His new eBook series called The Travel Troubleshooter is currently “in beta,” a version that is unformatted and therefore unpretty But to me, content is king, and each one is chock full of advance to make [...]
Burgundy & Bordeaux Wine Tours This Fall
Old World wine regions are focus of upcoming fall tours Courtesy BKWine Photography With so much attention paid nowadays to the New World wine regions of California, Oregon, British Columbia and the Southern Hemisphere, it’s easy to forget Old World wines — the European regions where viticulture and wine-making as we know it were developed and refined. BKWine [...]
Unusual New Guidebook from National Geographic
Beautiful book — part guidebook, part resource book — but I can’t figure out whom it’s written for If there is another guidebook and travel resource book like the recently published 100 Countries, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do, I can’t think of it. The book is a hefty trade [...]
National Parks, Part II
An up-to-the-minute website and a great guidebook series spotlight our parks Yesterday, I wrote a potpourri post that started with a description and photos from a just completed hike in Rocky Mountain National Park and ended with a plea to participate in National Public Lands Day coming up this Saturday. Here are two invaluable national [...]
Revised Resource for Disabled Tavelers
Guide to barrier-free travel addresses needs of mobility-impaired travelers I never thought much about the challenges faced by wheelchair users until my now-grown was an infant. There I was, an agile woman who often had problems navigating a carriage or stroller into some buildings, up steep stairs or places with oddball angles. I wondered then [...]
Tattered Cover to Welcome Arthur and Pauline Frommer
Father-daughter team of budget travel authorities launching book tour in the Denver area this week The first post-World War II generation of young, independent travelers boarded their cheap-o charter flights equipped with the essentials: passport, student ID, Eurailpass and Arthur Frommer’s Europe on $5 a Day. That iconic how-to travel book not only inspired young [...]
Thoughts About Travel Safety
Well-traveled American septuagenarian traveled to Iraq without incident When I was heading for Egypt a few months ago, a number of people asked whether I was “afraid” or “nervous” about visiting the Middle East. My response was, “No.” After I returned, people were happy that I had a “safe” trip. Several weeks later, when an [...]
"Lifetime Trips" Reads Like a Tour Brochure Anthology
Travel anthology is a surprising yawner I love to take anthologies on my own travels. If I put a book down and don’t pick it up again for six months, I haven’t lost my place. Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Travel Writing of Fill-in-the-Year and its companion series, the now-suspended Best American Food Writing…., are my [...]
Europe is Subject New Lonely Planet Book
Photo-heavy, information-light coffee table book showcases 52 countriesLonely Planet guidebooks are often thick and always comprehensive softcover books chockful of practical where-to, how-to, what-to information for travelers, particularly budget travelers. A few maps, illustrations and black-and-white photographs were scattered among the text pages, with a four-color photo insert or two to tart the layout up [...]
RIP, Edna Strand Dercum
Max Dercum founded Arapahoe Basin and Keystone — and Edna was more than Mrs. Max Dercum As I drove along Interstate 70 the other day, I thought of Max and Edna Dercum when I passed the Keystone and Arapahoe Basin exits, as I always do. Both were in their 90s — and far as I [...]
