Here’s my wrap up from the Outdoor Retailer show on Practical Travel Gear. What’s the OR show? It’s a huge display of gear by companies looking to get their gear onto retails shelves and in between the pages of magazines. It’s a fun scene, full of people who love to play outside and love to …
As I unpack and repack in preparation for Book Passage, a travel writing conference in California, I’m delighted to have a guest post from Eva Holland on why such events are worth the money and the bother. In 2007, I bet it all on Book Passage. I was an aspiring travel writer fresh off a …
On August 4th, I flew to Salt Lake City to attend the Outdoor Retailer trade show. After three days of walking around the convention center, I was more than ready to be outside. In my friend’s borrowed car, I drove the wrong way and ended up at Saltair, where I turned off on to the …
You know I’m a somewhat irregular contributor over at Gadling, right? They let me stray from my usual topic (gear) this month, and I wrote two things that might have ended up here, otherwise. One is about the Austrian School of Fantastic Realism — it’s an art thing — and how I think that stuff …
Maria Brettfall, a pilgrimage church above the village of Strass im Zillertal,Tirol.
The old girl was gimpy, you could see it in her walk. When the farmer let her out of the barn, she deferred to the grassy places along the outbuildings, avoiding the gravel drive and maybe stopping for a mouthful of grass along the way. Her two little ones were springy like puppies, black and …