SOMEWHERE WEST OF LONELY

Somewhere West of Lonely:  My Life in Pictures   Reviewed by Caroline Erskine In the world of publishing, there are some books that fit into the world you inhabit — by work, or simply by life experience. You tend to see those books through a vision a little closer to what the author intended, aware…

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100 Years of Dude Ranching

By Teresa Bitler The cover of 100 Years of Dude Ranching—a coffee table-style book celebrating the centennial of the Dude Ranchers’ Association—captures the allure of a dude ranch vacation. In the photograph taken by Western photographer Scott Baxter, a cowboy rides across Wyoming grasslands against a backdrop of mountainous rock formations glowing pink in the…

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How To Win at Travel

Reviewed by Nancy Wigston Once upon a time, Brian Kelly’s father handed his tech-obsessed son control over the many points he’d accumulated while traveling to California working for a healthcare startup. He thought his family of six might use the rewarded air miles and hotel loyalty to vacation in Florida. Then drive home to Philadelphia.…

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Just One Little Hitch

Hippies were everywhere. Small groups of them were coming up the A303 from the west, others from the east. I saw hippies cresting a rise to the north. In the distance, hippies were climbing over the stones of the monument. They were setting up tents and tepees and makeshift shelters. Scattered about the field one could find hogans, hovels, wickiups, and homemade sunshades. Pennants, flags, and brightly colored strips of cloth flapped and snapped from tree-branch poles next to the rude lodgings. The growing colony on the grassland looked like a cross between a medieval fair and an Arapaho village.