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?
Reduced to being an armchair traveler during the great COVID-19 pandemic, the Bashful Adventurer cracks open a novel by Randy Wayne White and learns lessons useful for these rat-riot insane times.
The Bashful Adventurer goes to Orchard House in Concord, MA to see all things Louisa May Alcott. But it’s another Alcott sister, Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (AKA “Amy” in Little Women) who turns out to have a big presence there.
Via Sarah Payne Stuart’s Perfectly Miserable If much of the joy of traveling is the anticipation simply about going somewhere, so, too, is reading up on the place to which you are about to go, not just to figure out…
A Reading of Helen Rappaport’s Romanov Sisters The story of some sisters burdened with a bit of a wackadoodle mother and an autocratic father appeals to many of us, even if we do know the ending, as in the case…
To the ever-growing list of things I don’t remember about American history is that Maine was once part of Massachusetts. One thing I do know about American history is that I am surely not hardy enough to have endured during…
Until reading Sonia Choquette’s book, Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed, I had no idea that travelers deliberately seek to walk the paths of original disciples of Jesus Christ. In a little over a month, and not being…
Visiting the Hemingway house in Key West, FL, the Bashful Adventurer finds his Key West wife.