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Who are you?

January 29, 2015 by William Eaton

“Who are you?” is the question a pilgrimage demands of the pilgrim. In this case, well-known European comedic entertainer, Hape Kerkeling, author of I’m Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago. Herr Kerkeling walked the Camino de Francés, the most popular of many “caminos” — roads in Spanish — to the Cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Campostela in the Province of Galicia. Kerkeling began his 775 km trek on June 9, 2001.  The Camino […]

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Last Exit to Elsewhere–II of II

January 15, 2015 by William Eaton

Part I  (8 January 2015) — “Podunk and Toonerville” — introduces Blue Highways In Blue Highways, author William Least Heat-Moon takes the “last exit to elsewhere” — Nameless, Tennessee or Remote, Oregon or Why, Arizona or Why Not, Mississippi, anyplace and no place. Heat-Moon’s narrative is travel writing at its best: self-discovery; observations painting a portrait of the destination – its place, its culture, its personality; captivating, solemn, enthralling and charming storytelling; wonderment, tolerance and acceptance arising spontaneously along the way; […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: blue highways, travel, william least heat moon

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Podunk and Toonerville – I of II

January 8, 2015 by William Eaton

Part II (15 Jan ’15) – “Last Exit to Elsewhere” – illustrates Mr. Heat-Moon’s superb writing   I was going to stay on the bent and narrow rural American two-lane, the roads to Podunk and Toonerville. Into the sticks, the boondocks, the burgs, backwaters… Into those places where you say, “My god! What if you lived here!” The Middle of Nowhere. Blue Highways, William Least Heat Moon’s classic 13,000 mile drive in 1978 through the nation’s back roads — its blue […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: blue highways, road trips, travel, william least heat moon

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The Gifts of Travel – II of II

January 1, 2015 by William Eaton

Selected authors’ observations on the “gifts of travel” Part I – Dec 25, 2014 Part II – Jan 01, 2015 On this season’s Christmas and New Year’s Day, from a few of the “classic” travel books that I reviewed in 2014, I am asking, what do some of the best travel writers, past and present, have to say about the gifts of travel? One of travel’s most valuable presents is “getting away from it all.” Observes acclaimed author Pico Iyer […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: phil caputo, pico ayer, travel

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The Gifts of Travel – I of II

December 25, 2014 by William Eaton

Selected authors’ observations on the “gifts of travel” Part I – Dec 25, 2014 Part II – Jan 01, 2015 On this season’s Christmas and New Year’s Day, I have selected from a few of the twenty-five “classic” travel books that I reviewed this year. I am asking, what do some of the best travel writers, past and present, have to say about the gifts of travel? Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad is one of the highest-selling travelogues of all time. […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: Goethe, Mark Twain, travel

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The Janus Culture

December 18, 2014 by William Eaton

“I reflected on why, over the years, I’d come to think of France as imbued with a ‘Janus culture,’ a nation whose world-view, like the ancient god of thresholds, managed at the same time to look back and ahead,” observes David Downie in Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James. Janus lived simultaneously in the past and present. This struck me as absolutely appropriate… Janus was contemporary France. Mr. Downie and his wife walk the […]

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Lonely Places

December 4, 2014 by William Eaton

  In Falling Off the Map, renowned travel author Pico Iyer says “Lonely Places are the places that don’t fit in; the places that have no seat at our international dinner tables; the places that fall between the cracks of our tidy acronyms (EEC and OPEC, OAS and NATO).” Published in 1993, Iyer’s essays capture “moods [of countries he visits] that would not change with history’s tide.” A few examples:   North Korea, for all its anonymity — its air of Everyplace  —  […]

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The Unum in the American Pluribus

November 27, 2014 by William Eaton

  What is the unum in the American pluribus? What is the “out of many, one,” those cultural values, attitudes, customs, historical heritage and other distinctions answering the question, “What holds us together?” In The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America from Key West to the Arctic Ocean, Philip Caputo asks this question of people he meets. Caputo begins “his long journey” in 2010 with wife, and two English Setters, truck and Airstream trailer at Key West, ending it months later […]

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The Flâneur

November 20, 2014 by William Eaton

In The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, Edmund White dedicates his memoir to the flâneur — the ambler “who loses himself in the crowd, who has no destination and goes where caprice or curiosity directs his or her steps… in search of experience… pure, useless, raw.” Going for a stroll [in Paris]… gave birth to that eminently Parisian compromise between laziness and activity known as flânerie! …More than any other city Paris is still constructed to tempt someone […]

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