Buckling Up in Ridgefield, Conn.

April 12, 2015

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An eye-catching reminder on exiting the Ridgefield Playhouse: extra-terrestrials must be safely strapped in.

—Lori Tripoli

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A telemarketer changed my path. My life was humming along. I was a freelance writer and editor, a single mom, a frequent volunteer, and content. Then I decided to give a random telephone surveyor a break. I agreed to answer a few questions on travel destinations and tourist preferences. When I answered never to “how many times have you been to London?,” the telemarketer’s tone shifted quickly. She was talking to an unworldly woman.

She was right. I’d been to Italy, the Caribbean, Mexico, Canada, and plenty of states. I hadn’t trekked through Europe, though, or gone to Asia or visited the Middle East. I was alone, I was a single mom, I was a freelancer. I stopped letting these be excuses and started getting on planes. I became the Bashful Adventurer.

—Lori Tripoli

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The Book to Bring to Positano, Italy

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A Book about Adventures in Travel at an Uncertain Time

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Books about Newport, RI: Murder at the Breakers

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Channeling Peggy Guggenheim and Costalegre, Jalisco, Mexico

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The Bashful Adventurer, engaged in some rugged armchair travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, picks up a copy of Courtney Maum’s novel, Costalegre. Will the Bashful Adventurer be transported?

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A Book about the Adirondacks: Murder in the Adirondacks by Craig Brandon

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A Book Set in Sanibel, FL: Seduced by Randy Wayne White

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Finding Gavrilo Princip at Terezin

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Learning about World War II at Terezin concentration camp in Czech Republic, the Bashful Adventurer is surpised to discover that Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who killed Franz Ferdinand, did time there.

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Visiting the Mendocino Coast

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(Last Updated On: )Getting Some Ideas from an Old 1972 Visitor Guide Visiting the Mendocino Coast for the first time, I quickly am reminded how little history of the Western United States I remember from any educational instruction on the…

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Where to Eat in Northern Westchester, NY and Vicinity

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As longtime residents of Northern Westchester county, the Bashful Adventurer and the Brawny Sherpa are often asked what their go-to restaurants are. Here, they share the local places they visit again and again.

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A 1000 Islands Getaway

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Ever curious about a place named for a salad dressing—or is it the other way around?—the Bashful Adventurer takes a getaway to New York’s 1000 Islands. But what will she do there?

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Where to Stay on a Finger Lakes Getaway

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