On the Death of the Travel Guide
Traditional travel guides are nearly dead. Are travelers better off?
Shipping on the Mississippi River: What Are the Real Costs?
Is bulk shipping by river sustainable? It's hard to know when no one is willing to ask about the costs.
Budget Travel Magazine Names Greatest Riverfront Towns
Budget Travel put out another one of those silly articles that national magazines specialize in, the kind where they pick the 11 (that number is surprisingly common) best of something or other in the whole country: The 11 Best Honeymoon Locales for your Second Marriage! The 11 Most Gecko-Friendly Hotels! The 11 Most Shallow Travel
The Next Cranky Blog: Wild Mississippi Is Pretty but Dumb
I must be quickly descending into grumpy old man-hood, because it seems that virtually any show I see anymore on the Mississippi River is disappointing. Wild Mississippi on Nat Geo Wild is just the latest effort that made me cranky. Narrated by a poor man’s Sam Elliott (is that accent real?), the basic narrative for
Road Tripping on the Great River Road
A few tips to make your road trip on the Great River Road more fun.
Iowa’s Skuzzy River Towns
Last week, The Atlantic published an opinion piece about life in Iowa written by New Jersey-born Stephen G. Bloom, I had a hard time getting through the whole article, because I don’t generally read fiction, especially when it is cloaked as respectable reporting.