I’m a sucker for lists of any kind. Give me one and I’ll read it. I also love to travel and read great travel stories. So combine all this and that makes for one happy mind trip.
Here are two sites that should keep me busy traveling the world on my armchair for awhile.
www.WorldHum.com has some great writing, first person narratives, essays, book reviews and interviews. To celebrate its 8th anniversary, it’s compiled a series of eight “best ofs” in these categories: funny travel stories; family travel stories, the travel writing life; beaches, islands and tropics; serendipity and kindness; road trips, food; and shrinking planet.
www.wander-list.com is a blog about travel lists from other websites, such as 12 caves to explore and Lonely Planet’s top ten destinations… by web clicks. I’ll resist the urge to go to my local library to check out the book, 1000 Places in the USA and Canada to See Before You Die. With no travel budget at the moment, this tome would definitely overwhelm me.
May 11, 2009 at 7:15 pm
OMG! I can’t ride a bike either. Didn’t have one as a child, and when my husband bought me one when I was 30, I could only work up the courage to wobble around the cul-de-sacs of the neighborhood. Scared to death of sharing the road with cars. Add one more thing to the list of our similarities.