Win A Travel Book #5

The winner of the 3rd contest selected The Blue Bear by Lynn Schooner a book I truly enjoyed.  The author starts out as a guide for a Japanese nature photographer, Michio Hoshino, in Alaska where they become friends and search for an elusive bear that is said to have blue tinged fur.  One of the books that inspired my desire to visit Alaska.  Sadly, Michio was killed by a grizzly in Russia in 1996. Read more

Win A Travel Book #4

The winner of the second contest selected The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.  I had this book to get me ready for the trip to the Galapagos Islands that I took in November of 2008.  I remember getting a bit bogged down with it as it covers his entire journey of a couple years.  As my time to go to the islands approached I skipped ahead to his visit there which I found more entertaining. Read more

Win A Travel Book #2

I have to admit the response to the first round of my win one of Brian’s travel books was underwhelming with only 6 entries.  Still all it takes is one entry to get two winners – me and the lucky commenter.  I selected the first winner today as I haven’t had access to internet, phone, showers (again) for the last couple of days while I was in Chaco Culture National Historical Park.  It turns out there really were two winners as the my parents next door neighbor won so I save on shipping

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