About the Road Trip Blogs

These blogs are written by the students in the "American Road Trip" class. The standing assignment is to post an image and comment connecting to the week's reading, hence the titles in the menu: e.g., "Beauvoir connection" refers to her road trip book America Day by Day; "Kerouac connection" refers to On the Road, etc. Readers of the website are invited to post comments on these blog entries; you don't have to register or create an account in order to do so. We hope you find the blogs edifying and entertaining.

L'invitation au voyage

L'invitation au voyage by Charles Baudelaire. For the words and the English translation, here.

Greenwich Village Literary Guide
Kerouac in NY

Bookshelf

Place Studies
Travel books
Literary Geography

New & Noteworthy

Travel myths
Seven common travel myths, debunked.
Ten Guide City Walks
Check out these guided city walks.
Frugal Traveler Does Grand Tour
The NYT's Frugal Traveler spends the summer following the path of the Grand Tour.
The IT list
Ten travel destinations you'll be hearing about this year.
America’s 25 top tourist spots
Forbes lists the country's most popular tourist attractions.
Stay home, or go green
Airplane travel leaves a huge carbon footprint, and biofuels don't look like an answer. But if you must go, go green: the NYT eco-tourism archive.
Europe, this side of the pond
Another take on the staycation—places in the USA and Canada that resemble tourist destinations in Europe, and we're not talking Epcot.
A Sense of New York
Twenty-six students write about some of their favorite places in NYC.
Abroad in NYC
Twenty-five students go in 25 directions, traveling around NYC.
A Day in New York
Five Washington Post writers go in five directions in New York.
The New York Canon: Books
New York Magazine names its list of the New York literary canon—"26 works of lapidary New Yorkitude."
The New York Canon: Architecture
New York Magazine names some of the city's great architectural treasures—the city's canon.
Secrets of the City
The Best Kept Secrets of New York City
Places of a Lifetime
National Geographic Traveler's Places of a Lifetime—the world's top travel destinations.
Strange Travel
Travel writer Jeff Greenwald has turned his tales into a one-man stage show called “Strange Travel Suggestions."

Place & Lit TV

I collect with vodpod

I collect with vodpod

I collect with vodpod