The Bashful Adventurer picks up a romance novel written in the late 1930s hoping to see if and how the author addressed the coming war—and ends up getting a lesson on careers in the travel and tourism industry at a time when adventures in travel were far from mainstream
Category: Adventuring
Spectacular Armchair Traveling 2020
With travel in place on everyone’s agenda for the next six months, the Bashful Adventurer offers some spectacular armchair traveling options for the rest of the year and into 2021.
Channeling Peggy Guggenheim and Costalegre, Jalisco, Mexico
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?
Escape to Cold Spring, NY during the Pandemic
Set back by a summer storm that knocks out her power and internet, the Bashful Adventurer books a mini-vacation in nearby Cold Spring, NY during the COVID-19 pandemic. But will she feel safe there?
What Visiting the Seaside Heights Boardwalk Is Like Now
In this summer of staycations, the Bashful Adventurer heads to the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ for a much-needed reprieve. Will she feel safe on this day trip? Will you?
Films Set in Venice: Don’t Look Now
Since the only sort of travel any of us are actually engaging in during the COVID-19 era is some very hearty channel surfing, this seems like a good a moment as any to indulge in movies about travel and, more specifically, films set in Venice, Italy. And so I watch a bit of an oldie,…
What It Is Like Flying Out of JFK July 2020
The Bashful Adventurer, faced with the need to fly domestically due to an emergency, flies out of JFK airport in the summer of 2020. How unnerving will the experience be?
A Book about the Adirondacks: Murder in the Adirondacks by Craig Brandon
Indulging in some armchair travel of the NY Adirondacks, the Bashful Adventurer picks up a book about the Adirondacks. But will she like what she finds in Murder in the Adirondacks?
Watch The Trip to Greece Film
Limited to armchair traveling, the Bashful Adventurer fires up the latest Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon collaboration. But will watching The Trip to Greece do more than bring on a bout of nostalgia?
On Monday I Traveled to the Supermarket
Travel in the time of the coronavirus pandemic: A grocery store/#COVIDKindness saga with a slight dose of privilege