Journal Entry 1 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Friday, May 21, 2010

From the back cover:

Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel—its excitement and novelties, its perils and misadventures. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel: She goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses acute political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to startling realizations of their own. In this beautifully crafted memoir, Schwartz's personal history takes on new shape and her feelings about travel change as she shows us who she started out as and who she has become.

Journal Entry 2 by therubycanary at Nashville, Tennessee USA on Friday, December 03, 2010

Mom reports this has made it safe and sound to her house. Thanks! 

Journal Entry 3 by therubycanary at Nashville, Tennessee USA on Sunday, July 17, 2011

This is almost like an anti-travel-logue, where the author explores her reasons for why she would rather stay home and be a writer. Her husband loves travel though, and various job opportunities have landed her in different parts of the world. There are some great lines in this quick book, and I wish I had the foresight to write them down. I always thing I'll remember where they are in the book, but of course, I never do.

The author's tone is one of constant slight discontent, which, if I had to guess, is probably something she expresses no matter where she is. 

Journal Entry 4 by therubycanary at Flatbread Company (OBCZ), 72 Commercial St in Portland, Maine USA on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Released 10 mos ago (7/17/2011 UTC) at Flatbread Company (OBCZ), 72 Commercial St in Portland, Maine USA

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Left at the crossing zone.