Cook Memorial Library

I like to travel. I don’t get to do it nearly enough, but I’ve learned to milk the experience for all it’s worth. I’m a good anticipator, waiting for weeks with baited breath (what IS that, anyway?) to get on the plane, and I savor the memory for years afterwards.

Because I always bring at least three books when I travel, I like the lengthy waits in the airport because I can read all day, a total-emersion experience. Books about travel are great to read while traveling, and the library has a pretty good collection.

On this last trip to the sea islands off Georgia, I read ‘Driving over Lemons‘ by Chris Stewart, about an English couple homesteading in Spain. It made me want to be a shepherd when I grow up.

Here are a few more titles to tempt you:
‘Cross Country : Fifteen Years And Ninety Thousand Miles On The Roads And Interstates Of America With Lewis And Clark, A Lot Of Bad Motels, A Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in Law, Two Kids, And Enough Coffee To Kill An Elephant‘ by Robert Sullivan
‘Eat Pray Love‘ by Elizabeth Gilbert
‘A walk among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas‘ by the Caribbean writer, Jamaica Kincaid.
‘A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveler‘ by Frances Mayes
‘The Pipes are Calling‘ by Niall Williams (novelist also) and Christine Bream
Anything by Bruce Chatwin or Bill Bryson.
‘A Walk in the Woods‘ by Bill Bryson and Footing it in Franconia‘, from the WODC collection, are two terrific local travel books.