Travel books

One great benefit from traveling for an extended period is you get time to actually read. As in for hours on end sometimes. Some of this reading time is voluntary, as when you are kicked back in a hammock by a beach, but other times it’s what you do while waiting or riding. The actual …

I’m going to Mexico for two months this summer. For a dozen different reasons, that will make some people gasp, especially those who haven’t been there and those who watch TV half the day and night. The second part will confirm to many that I am a genuine nutcase: my family is going with me. …

In the latest issue of Perceptive Travel there’s a review of the recent Marco Polo biography from Laurence Bergreen. This is an interesting guide to the life of the original world traveler, a Venetian who ended up going to Constantinople, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, and along the Silk Road from Pakistan through Mongolia and …