Jan 30, 2021
Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail.
The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommer’s, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free online.
The compilation is designed to be food for thought rather than an invitation to hit the road.
With COVID-19 cases surging in many parts of the country, “we don’t want people to use these essays as the basis for travel until doing so is safe once again,” Pauline Frommer, who heads the guidebook company, told the AP. “We hope this list will be a spur to future travel, but we also just wanted it to be great reading right now.”
Jan.24.2021
Bid boring goodbye on Interstate 25 in Wyoming, one of the nationâs most beautiful interstates. Nature gave the buttes crew cut hairdos. The gap between the Laramie Mountains and the Big Horn Mountains was the pioneersâ path to the west. Between Kaycee and Sheridan, the Bighorn National Forest stretches beside the highway.
Allow at least a day in Cheyenne, then two more days to explore the rest of I-25âs stops. Drive time without stops is 4.5 hours.
I-25 roughly follows the Bozeman Trail, the only trail that indigenous peoples ever shut down permanently. Range wars pitted homesteaders and large ranchers against each other.
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FILE - This undated image shows a view of Serpent Mound in Pleasant Hill, Ohio. The location is featured in a collection of mini-essays by American writers published online by the Frommer s guidebook company about places they believe helped shape and define America. (The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File)
Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail.
The collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommer’s, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free online.
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Dec 31, 2020 6:38 AM
UNDATED (AP)- If 2020 had been a normal year, travel experts would be offering year-end lists of great vacation spots for 2021 right now. But Frommer’s travel guidebook company says that felt irresponsible during the pandemic. Instead they invited 16 notable writers to describe places they think have helped shape and define America. Selections range from Gloria Steinem writing about Serpent Mound Historical Site in Ohio to Jodi Picoult on the Black Heritage Trail in New Hampshire. David Sedaris describes the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City and Cheryl Strayed writes about the Oregon coast. The collection can be read free online at Frommers.