Tag: travel

• Intrepid Travelers

  As with any genre, travel writing can be deliberately formulaic or ambitiously literary, depending on the writer’s intent and/or ability. From Petrarch to Percy Shelley to Tom Bissell, authors have used travel as backdrops for larger themes. Petrarch’s Ascent of Mount Ventoux (1336) makes mountain climbing an allegory for spiritual growth. Historians disagree as to…

  Bill Ectric

  February 2, 2012

  A History of Connecticut Wine, Afoot in Connecticut, Ascent of Mount Ventoux, Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT, Eric D. Lehman, geography, Hamden, history, Kelly Lynn Thomas, metafiction, Michael Abraham, Paganism, Percy Shelley, Petrarch, Stuart McGehee, The Goddess Espana, The Spine of the Virginias, Tom Bissell, travel, travel writing, witch

• Afoot in Connecticut

  I’ve been enjoying these video clips from Eric Lehman’s blog, The Myth of Home.  I’ll be back soon with another Wadsworth Camp update.

  Bill Ectric

  February 4, 2010

  Connecticut, Eric D. Lehman, travel, travel writing

• “Out There” by Mikael Covey

  Author Mikael Covey of LitUp Magazine recently told me, “Out There is a book I wrote many years ago. Maybe fifteen years ago, or so. Has some general similarites to Kerouac’s On the Road, but in the post-Vietnam ’70’s era – the hippie movement, drugs, rock n roll. Lots a fun and good times, in a sad,…

  Bill Ectric

  August 5, 2008

  california, life, Mikael Covey, on the road, san francisco, travel, youth