Tips & Reviews
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Around the World in 80 Days
A Review of Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), and a brief mention of Michael Todd’s film of the same title (1956, Michael Anderson, Director) It took three eccentrics to make Jules Verne’s book possible in… Read full article
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Travel Photography: A Selection of Books & Resources
Travel Photography: A Selection of Books & Resources Winter comes to the Colorado Front Range sometime in November. For me, it’s always sort of a sad time, because it means putting away my bike for the winter and finding something… Read full article
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My Life on Two Wheels
My Life on Two Wheels My Life on Two Wheels By Clifford L. Graves (Manivelle Press, La Jolla, CA; 1985) The history of Americans touring Europe by bicycle is yet to be written. When it is, it will likely begin… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Tips to prepare for your bicycling trip
Interview with Joeann Gutowski We visited with Joeann Gutowski in our Fort Collins office before she heads to our Bicycling Through the Best of Provence tour this fall to ask about her routine and tips to prepare for her cycling… Read full article
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Snoretories (Translated from “Chorizos, Sirenen und Wilde Gänse” by Jochen Mangelsen and Philipp Alexander Schmitt)
Philipp Alexander Schmitt leads our tours in Spain and Germany. We thought we would share one of the chapters from his book about hiking the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain for the first time. For those of you that… Read full article
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The Broker by John Grisham
The Broker by John Grisham In the author’s notes in The Broker John Grisham admits he has a high-tech phobia. His word processor he writes, is a thirteen-year-old piece of equipment. "When it stutters. . . When it finally quits… Read full article
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The Words of Bernfrieda, A Chronicle of Hauteville by Gabriella Brooke
The Words of Bernfrieda, A Chronicle of Hauteville by Gabriella Brooke NOTE: For those of you traveling with us to Southern Italy, or simply interested in finding out more about this region, we’ve included an annotated reading list at the… Read full article
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) When I began graduate school in geography at the University of Oregon in the early 1970s some of the… Read full article
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The Race
by David Shields – reviewed by Rick Price I think I reached chapter seven before I realized that I was reading a novel, and not a biography of a Tour de France racer. I picked up Dave Shields’ book, The… Read full article