purchased on Ebay, as it looked like a fun children's story, a nice fun, quick read. (Penguin 60's, the short mini books that are so adorable.)

It sure has been ages since I did one but the time has finally come to do another travel narrative bookbox!

There are a few rules:
1. Journal all books that you take out of the box
2. Add the same number of books that you remove from the box
3. Post in the journal that is with the box when sending and receiving the box, so I can track it
4. Please try to keep the bookbox for no longer than 2 weeks
5. If the box is starting to show signs of wear, please replace it
6. Media mail is perfectly acceptable, delivery confirmation is up to you
7. Box returns to me at the end
8. Travel narratives only: no guidebooks, phrasebooks, non-travel books
9. If you could list in your journal entry which books are you taking and which ones you are putting in, I would appreciate it. Like seeing what happens between I send the box and when I get it back.
10. Have fun!



*The Accidental Exporer by Sherry Simpson
*Buttertea at Sunrise by Britta Das
*A Cape Cod Journal by Erma J. Fisk
*Dear Exile by Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery
*The Early Arrival of Dreams by Rosemary Mahoney
*Fatu-Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl
*Incidents of Travel in Yucatan volume 1 by John L Stephens
*Incidents of Travel in Yucatan volume 1 by John L Stephens
*The Lost Girls by Jennifer Baggett, Holly C Corbett and Amanda Pressner
*Mango Elephants in the Sun by Susana Herrera
*Moonlight on the Ganga by Claire Krulikowski
*River Town by Peter Hessler
*Savages by Joe Kane
*Shalom, Japan by Shifra Horn
*Smile When You're Lying by Chuck Thompson
*Way off the Road by Bill Geist

Bookbox's sending order:
1. mrsjones (OH)
2. perryfran (UT)
3. debnance (TX)
4. bibliotreker (PA)
5. GoryDetails (NH) *request for middle*
6. 6of8 (MD) *request for later in the box*
7. eponine38 (MA) *request for towards the end*
8. freezone (MA)
9. azuki (FL) *request for later in the box, bumped down at her request*
10. merrymari *requested to be bumped towards the end*
11. elizardbreath (AR) *request for towards end*
12. BooksandMusic (WA)

Off in my latest travel narrative bookbox

Got the bookbox. So many good ones! I'll have to see how many I have to add before I make my choices.

Didn't mean to have this for so long, but am ready to send it on.

I've chosen:
Moonlight on the Ganga
The Accidental Explorer
Buttertea at Sunrise
Smile When You're Lying
The Lost Girls

And added:
Spanish Lessons
Neither Here Nor There
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven
Cork Boat
The Longest Way Home

Sending on to perryfran. Thanks for including me!

Received the bookbox today. Looks like some good ones to select from. I've already contacted debnance and as soon as I receive her address, I'll get these moving again.

Selecting:

Savages by Joe Kane
Fatu-Hiva by Thor Heyerdahl
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Vols. 1 & 2)

Adding:

Foreign Affairs by Mitzi Szereto
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Tales of The Alhambra by Washington Irving
Travels of Marco Polo
My Love Affair with England by Susan Allen Toth

I was able to get this off to debnance today. Thanks for organizing this bookbox!

USPS Tracking 9549015443317042111086

The box arrived two days ago. I'm trying decide between five books and I should do so soon.

Received yesterday, I'll make my selections and try to get it back out in a few days. Thanks goaliegirl.

Ready to send out to the next person.

I've chosen
Travels in Siberia
Way Off the Road
A Cape Cod Journal
A Longway Home
Spanish Lessons

Added
Paris My Sweet
A Land of Two Halves
Blue Latitudes
Hitching Rides With Buddha
Passage to Juneau

The Travel Bookbox arrived safely today, despite the rain. (The box is starting to split so I plan to replace it for its next hop.)

I had to smile when I saw this book; I love the little Penguin 60s, and I have fond - if dim - memories of reading about Pippi when I was a kid.

Update, 3/30: the box is in the mail, to 6of8 in Maryland. (Azuki had been next on the list but asked to be moved down a slot or two.) Tracking #: 9549012103467089064235

Taking out:

Notes From a Small Island
Cork Boat
Marco Polo
Tales of The Alhambra
Hitching Rides with Buddha
Passage to Juneau
The Black Nile
A Land of Two Halves

Putting in:

Narrow Dog to Indian River
On a Hoof and a Prayer: Exploring Argentina at a Gallop
Travels in West Africa
A Wolverine is Eating My Leg
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
Long Way Down: John O'Groats to Cape Town
Extra Virgin: Among the Olive Groves of Liguria
Dave Barry Does Japan
American Notes for General Circulation

The book box was waiting for me when I arrived home from my trip today. I have found 3 that I am really interested in and I have 4 to add. But some of the locals in my area have expressed an interest in participating.

From the book box I selected
A Wolverine is Eating my Leg,
Pies and Prejudice
On a Hoof and Prejudice

And I added
Home Free
The Caliph's House
Over Sand and Sea
The Best American Travel Writing of 2003

ResQgeek selected
Dave Barry Does Japan

And added
Driving Mr. Albert

04/17 -- ETA
I have also selected Two Years on the River, because the box is a little too full
Because I added contributions from local BookCrosser SqNutZips:
Hiking Through
The Camino
Bay Country

I will mail this out to eponine38 on Thursday.

This book is now bound for Massachusetts in the Travel Narrative Book Box along with a lot of really cool books.

Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.

Received the book box last week and have PM'd the next in line for her/his name and address. No answer, so will write again. What a great box: on first glance, I wanted everything! But now I've narrowed it down somewhat. It appears that only one of the original books in the box still remains (the Mangos title, about Africa and the Peace Corps.)

Also, I had the chance to re-read Pippi Longstocking, which was much weirder than I remembered as a kid. I guess all the lies were a real shock to me as a child, and made it particularly fun (plus, of course, having a horse living on the porch.) It's quite the wish fulfillment book for a little girl. So, it was great to read this again, though I missed the illustrations in the version I had as a child.

Planning to take:
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/512-13374053 Extra virgin
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/029-14502099 Bay Country
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/969-14436058 Paris My Sweet
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/273-13243442 Beyond Belfast
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/add/924-14463467 Long Way Down

Putting in:
A Room with A View, E.M. Forster
Aya of Yop City
Stones into Schools
Travels with Lizbeth
Walking to Vermont

Following up re: burst box. That's crazy! I just replaced the old box with a new one, that I thought was sturdy enough, but I guess the box was as cheap as the purchase that came in it...

The box has arrived. Two of its sides are completely burst, but I counted 23 books in it, which is more than what the box started with, so I presume nothing was lost? Anyway, a nice mix of travelogues and expat stories from all over the world, even a few fictions in it.

I don't have a suitable box to replace it yet, but I do have a nice stack of books ready to go in. Will post my selection next week or two.

ETA: I've mailed the box on but then realized that I left the journal behind! Sorry. In between the post office trips I decided to read this, as I've never read Pippi Longstocking. What a curious girl! Definitely the "girls who behave don't have fun" type.

Hi All! So glad to be included in this reincarnation of the travel narratives bookbox. I have one to add, but am on the lookout for more... Pippi arrived in the mail today, the lil journal, loved those movies as a kiddo. I read the first 20 pages or so, hope I can get around to finishing it before the box moves on. Speaking of which, only the journal arrived, but I figure that this means the box will be along in a few days, plus I read the previous JE's about needing a larger, maybe, sturdier box. It happens. I will look forward to browsing the box when it arrives, I know I like to send things media mail, cheaper but can take a bit longer. -Patience is a virtue, of which I have some???

P.s. I will contact booksandmusic re: their address once the box arrives.

Box arrived Monday, 8/7/17. I will open it and report back regarding additions, subtractions and contents it arrived with. It looks to be in pretty good shape, I may be able to reuse the box.

I counted 22 books, though I could've miscounted.

Taking out:

The Road to Santiago
Walking to Vermont
Two wheels and a Taxi
An African in Greenland

Putting in:

In a Sunburnt Country
A Summer in Europe
All Over the Map
an Innocent, a Broad

*I have messaged Booksand Music re: their address, I will wait a week for a response and if I hear nothing I will forward to thegoaliegirl.

Received the box a few days ago but am just JEing now as book box journal was mistakenly left out of box and sent separately. Now I have the journal. So here is what I did:

Added:

The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe by Devla Murphy
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14690248/

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France by Peter Mayle
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14690259/

Letters From England by Patricia Jacobs http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14690260/

Cyprus, An Island Apart: A Personal Experience by Seamus MacHugh
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14690261/

When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale by Matthew Davis
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14690262/

I removed from the box:

Running the Amazon by Joe Kane http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7919314/

Paddle to the Arctic: The Incredible Story of a Kayak Quest Across the Roof of the World by Don Starkell http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14539782/

Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail by Paul Stutzman http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14502096/

Travels with Lizbeth by Lars Eighner http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13434937/

I need to get thegoaliegirl's address then will mail it. Thanks, lots of interesting books in this box.

Sent back to thegoaliegirl, tracking # is 840 5980 0055 002 00016 98532 02

Hooray! The box made it home! There are so many amazing books in here! I've already got a start of the next box going... so stay tuned in a few months for my next one. Would love to hear if you would prefer one or two a year from here on...