Books as travel mementoes?
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Comments (4)Great...hope everyone that ever travels or would travel more if they had better info will get one. It is 2007 which is the last year he put it out. The wonderful thing is that almost all the data is still current since state parks and natl parks etc don't change much if any at all. Using it as a guide and then add the internet just to double check makes it the best investment you will ever make to facilitate travel. I have the library copy and it is HEAVY and sturdy !! c...See MoreWhere to start with parents' photos, mementos
Comments (25)I've been working on a similar project for the past 1 1/2 years. In my case, I don't have children, I'm 52 & my siblings are all older. IOW, most of us do NOT want more stuff!!!! LOL! So I've been scanning all the photos & either tossing them or sending them to someone who may want it & let them toss it if they want. I do save some of the more precious ones for my self. But let's face it, alot of them are dups or similar to each other & you just don't need those. I've got a personal website where I've uploaded alot of the photos & have used a few programs I'm happy with to make & burn DVDs to distribute to people who may be interested in watching them on their TV or their computer. One program even allows you to specify the original images should be stored on the DVD so if anyone wants a reprint, they can easily pull it from the DVD, after playing it. Currently, I've got ~12,000 images on my computer. One program I've found invaluable in keeping them organized is ACDSee Photo Manager. It took a while to get all the photos organized in it and it's not an inexpensive program. But I can typically find any image I'm looking for in a minute or two. Another project I've been doing is recording my 91 y/o Mother talking about her life. I even bought a pocket camcorder (Flip Ultra) that I pretty much take with me everywhere...so if she starts talking about something, I can whip it out & record her. I also post these on our family website and have even included them the past couple of years on DVDs I include with Christmas cards. My father died 26 years ago. I do have some old audio tapes with his voice that I've uploaded to the computer & it's fun to hear his voice. But the tapes are very old & the recording quality was not that good. I wish I had video of him...it would be nice to see that....See MoreIdea: Travel Book Post
Comments (22)So, it's the fifteenth so it's time to share our travel reads. ("Sharing is caring," after all, say the Care Bears.) * America's Best Travel Writing - 2000 edition - edited by Bill Bryson The early debut edition of the best-selling "America's Best" Series, this volume of writing travels the world from being kidnapped in Uganda to searching for the next in line to the Dalai Llama to hitch-hiking in Cuba to delivering water in Northern Australia. The selection, chosen by Bill Bryson (who I usually adore) covered the gamut from serious to funny (but nothing completely hilarious like Peter Hessler's writing in a later edition). Most of the writing was from 1999 (since this was published in 2000), and was from mostly magazines (although a blog would pop up every now and then). One thing that struck me was that 90% of the authors were male which I found a bit irritating. What? You could only find three articles penned by women that were considered worthy? Really?? But apart from that, the writing was strong and the articles were enjoyable. It's highly unlikely that I would ever get to travel to Tibet as one of the writers did, or risk my life to stay the night in Central Park (as another person did). But I did get to experience quite closely through the first-person writing of these essays (or articles?). As the introduction by series editor Jason Wilson writes, "Having a travel writer report on particular things, small things, the specific ways in which people act and interact, is perhaps our best way of getting beyond the clichis that we tell each other about different places and cultures, and about ourselves." A very fun way to get exposed to different experiences in different cultures and ideal for the armchair traveler. * Monique and the Mango Rains - Kris Holloway This was a good fast read for me. It is a memoir detailing the friendship that develops between a young idealist Peace Corps volunteer and a village midwife in Mail (a country in West Africa), a place where childbirth had a high mortality rate. What I thought really made this strong was that the author (the Peace Corp volunteer) has written it in a sensitive way so that Monique comes across as the expert (which she is) instead of the Great White Colonial Person here to save the day. Obviously, both people have a lot to learn from each other, but I really appreciated the tenderness that the author feels for her friends in the African village. The story takes place over the two years that Kris Holloway and boyfriend John spent as volunteers with the Peace Corps in a smallish village that is miles out in the African bush, and as I read the descriptions of where they lived and what they ate and their day-to-day encounters, it was clear that you would have to be a special kind of person to live in that environment. (I am not one of them. I like all the modern conveniences, I am afraid. Plus I I am bit picky about food. ) Monique is a specially trained health......See MoreHot fun in the summer time - July reading
Comments (83)At last I have finished Trollope's The Warden and . . . for Sheri . . . who couldn't remember the 'plot' It concerns the warden, kind old Rev Mr Harding, who is in charge of the Barchester 'hospital' ie alms houses for 12 old 'beadsmen' of the city. A young radical hot-head John Bold, believes that Harding is taking too much money as his stipend from the Trust, which should go to the old men instead. People take sides, even the pensioners, not understanding Harding already gives them an allowance out of his own pocket. The London newspapers take up the story leading to innocent-in-the-ways-of-the-world Harding resolves to leave his post and live on a very small amount of money in a tiny parish. Tied in with this is the bossy Archdeacon, the kindly Bishop and the lovely Eleanor Harding who spends too much time, in that rather unhealthy Victorian way, weeping on the bosom of her Father . . . and he on hers....See Morewoodnymph2_gw
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