It the 1950s, when car travel was pretty much the norm, a real mystic developed about taking car trips for vacation. It was during that time, when the interstate highway systems were being developed ...
The year is 1955. The Fonz is blasting "Rock Around the Clock" on the jukebox and the McFlys are going steady thanks to a confused teen with a tricked-out DeLorean. Greasers and poodle skirts ...
Some people travel as a vacation: to decompress from life's stresses, to shut down and escape. Others view travel as a vocation in itself. I'm one of the latter. Every journey is like a life in micr...
Jack Kerouac, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family was born in 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. Having left college, he joined the merchant marines and began the restless wandering...
How long have you been agent and how did you get your start Tom Catt?
Hi, Jeff, it's me, Tom. Er, Tom Dark. I do adult fiction/nonfiction. Catt does young adult and kids' books. She's tied up wit...
Only those with little money and infinite patience would consider crossing the continent by bus, but it can be an unforgettable experience, one that's inaccessible to the short distance traveler. A ba...
The endless steaming ribbon of road unrolls before you like a film. Heat haze shimmers and distorts the horizon, breaking the asphalt into tiny lakes which dissolve into nothingness as you rocket on t...
When bringing a student group to tour Boston, you may also want to consider adding a short excursion to Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell was founded as a manufacturing town in the Merrimack Valley and is...
Undoubtedly, everyone at some point or other, has referred to someone by a nickname. I don't mean a dubious nickname such as "tiny" or "stretch" but rather when someone is called Jack (John) or Peg (M...
"I don't fault the few people who think Pauly fictionalizes his life. If I hadn't seen a lot of it, I'd call shenanigans, too. However, as an occasional character in his misadventures, I can point...
The Beat Movement, The Beats, The Beat Generation - what exactly was it? Truth is I don’t know and I don’t think anybody else does. I mean beat generation was a moniker that Kerouac applied to his clo...
Have you tried hitchhiking? It's fun, and the adventure is its own reward, but you have to know how to play it safe. You can't flaunt your worldly goods, including your loaded money clip or wallet...
New York is undoubtedly America's most culturally vibrant city. Throughout its history, it's always been a catalyst for innovation and change, not least in terms of its literary contribution. Today, t...
South Africa is vast and beautiful land, rich in indigenous flora, untamed wildlife and a vast array of geographical climates and landscapes.
Whether you're enjoying the Mediterranean climate of Cape...
There are a lot of challenging trends out there that imperil your quality of life. Are you ready for them?
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years from now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friends and parents and teachers some time or other will tell you the names of some books that you must read before you die.
You may ask what is in a book. What is in a classic novel? Well! Part...
The sixth arrondissement of central Paris is located on the Left Bank of the Seine River. Its area slightly exceeds a square mile (over 2 square kilometers) with a population of 45,000 and sli...
Doctors say there are approximately 2.5 million people with schizophrenia. Of those, typically 10-20% will achieve successful recovery. However, new research suggests that treatment of schizophrenia c...
It the 1950s, when car travel was pretty much the norm, a real mystic developed about taking car trips for vacation. It was during that time, when the interstate highway systems were being develop...
Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel "The Grapes of Wrath", detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma's...
