Recent posts by Meg Robbins
The Big Fat Travel Book
So who doesn’t love a book you can open to any page and get huge, gorgeous photos overlapping two pages per nation with a sidebar of Useful Information? Close your eyes and open the Travel Book about half way (page 209 out of 447) and you get Kiribati (hands …
Continue reading 1 commentBackpacking Your Way to a New You
Friedman, unable to shake a lifetime practice of thinking before jumping, records her conversations with herself as she pulls farther and farther away from her cultural norm. Diving against her better judgment into a fast river in Kakadu National Park near Darwin, which may or may not harbor … Continue reading 2 commentsRunning Around the World:Second Wind
Washington-based Cami Ostman author of Second Wind subtitles her book, One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents, which instantly made me head-snap a picture of super-jock. She’s not. Ostman might more accurately have added a little visual appeal to we of more modest enthusiasms — One …
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