Choose Your Own Adventure: Bus Trips to Spark Your Wanderlust
By Amanda Festa The idea of the road trip is magic. It is a different kind of travel, about the journey far more than it is about the destination. The…
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La Belle Helene: A Rare Discovery at Greece’s Mycenae
By Albert Englehardt “See, here is the German archaeologist Wilhelm Dörpfeld’s signature, and here is Agatha Christie’s, and over there is Jean-Paul Sartre’s. Your room is named after him. My father…
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Travel for Women, Minus the Baggage: 8 Things We Learned at the Women’s Travel Fest
By Jessica Monk “I think that as women we’ve got the same messages since little girls. If you think of red riding hood, it’s don’t go into the woods.” Whether…
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Love on the Road: An Anthology of Love and (Wander)Lust
By Amanda Festa “My message will make sense to those who are willing to listen…who appreciate contradiction, nuance, and who recognize that in life there is rarely black and white,…
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Southern Comfort: A Poet’s Biography of Antarctic Cuisine
By Jessica Monk Here the geography is so singular that our presence is inseparable from our desire to see: here we are the only figure on the figureless ground we…
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The Literary Traveler Summer Reading Challenge
By Amanda Festa Summer is in full swing, and with so many gorgeous days to take advantage of, we are always on the lookout for a new book. Yet, it…
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Summer Reading for the Literary Traveler — Beat the Heat and Join the Challenge!
Introduction by Amanda Festa Summer reading is as representative of the season as backyard BBQs and beach days. If you are like us, you enjoy the throwback to youth when…
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Coffee, Cigarettes, and Revolution: Cuba on the Verge of Change
By Wes Newbury The coffee is strong and sweet, served in a white plastic cup no bigger than a shot glass. The man behind the counter collects my change and sits…
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Ode to England Inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro
by Zoe Smith “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”…
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Ponies & Tranquility, Jane Austen’s New Forest
by Janet Halliday Trees in thick green leaf fuzz the banks of the Beaulieu River. The foliage wall is pierced occasionally by inviting, narrow inlets through the trailing branches, or…
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