run + travel

A couple of weeks ago I received a preview copy of a new travel memoir, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambo...

Happy  Book Blogger Appreciation Week ! What? This is a running blog? Well, let's be honest: book reviews are part of the fun here...

With no runs on the schedule, I've done more reading this weekend than usual (which is saying something given that I devour about a book...

I have been on a bit of a hiking-reading kick lately. Immediately after reading Wild , I ordered AWOL on the Appalachian Trail by David Mil...

In my quest to read as much intellectual non-fiction many travel memoirs as I can this summer, I picked up Memoirs of a Gas Station: A Deli...

A few weeks ago Bob Schwartz sent a copy of I Run, Therefore I Am--Nuts! to me to read and review. I've been slowly chuckling my way th...

I read quite a lot of travel/memoir. Image source I recently filled you in on how much I enjoyed Wild: From Lost to Found on the Paci...

Last weekend two full days of flash flooding kept me indoors. It probably comes as no surprise that I like to be outside. I get cabin fever...

Quiet morning: Kindle and coffee... Rain on the windowpanes. Hot cup of coffee. No early workout scheduled before the workday begins. ...

Has it been a year already? I tentatively dipped my toe into the blog waters in February 2011, and much like running, I got hooked. To th...

I just finished The Long Run by Matt Long and Charles Butler. This is, without a doubt, the best book I read in 2011. Matt Long's a...

I just finished reading Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, of Seabiscuit fame. I...

This week  a San Diego legend passed away. I'm not talking about a rock star or a politician. I'm talking about a community coll...