In honor of Travel Writing Week  here at Vernacular, I have a writing exercise for you that will require a little travel of your own.  But don’t worry:  you don’t have to venture too far outside your comfort zone. This exercise comes from Blogger-in-Chief Kim (though she may have simply been passing it on to [...]

Just to be fair, I should confess: travel literature is definitely not my genre of expertise.  So I trusted the tastes of the Globe Corner Bookstore employees when I chose The Geography of Bliss, a charming and perplexing book about traveling to the world’s happiest countries in the hopes of arriving at an enlightened understanding [...]

“I took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.” And such is the reasoning behind Blue Highways, a travelogue of a man and his van, traveling around the perimeter of the United States solely on backroads, no federal highways allowed. [...]

Since I cannot spend my summer at the beach stalking sea turtles and super-intelligent kelp, I do the next best thing: work out so I could, in theory, spend the summer looking good at the beach. Except of course I am an intellectual, so I work out some non-traditional parts of the body. Enter my [...]

I began to wonder about the others. Tim had fallen well behind me, as I had stopped bothering to wait up for him…

Since the sun in Boston has finally emerged, I’m finally feeling less inclined to move away or get out of town. Summer’s finally here!  But since lots of our bloggers have been planning or engaging in summer travel, we thought a fun theme for our first week of July would be that genre packed full [...]