Category Archives: American Travel

On The Road Again: Arizona

Posted on October 26, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

“May you and those you love walk in beauty.” – A Navajo prayer When my Seattle neighbors invited me to visit them at their winter getaway in Scottsdale, Arizona, I jumped at the opportunity.      Like folklore’s famed golden-haired Rhine … Continue reading →

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Brussels’ FLEA MARKETS

Posted on June 25, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

  . . .pleasant was it then to stray down the peaceful alleys, and hear the bells of St. Jean Baptiste peal out with their sweet, soft, exalted sound. —Charlotte Brontë  (Vilette,1853)       Brussels, founded in A.D. 979, is not … Continue reading →

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Women Traveling Solo: Pros & Cons plus Tips.

Posted on June 5, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.”  —Edith Wharton        People often ask me what it’s like to do all the traveling that I do alone.  The truth … Continue reading →

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On The Road: Spokane, Washington and Its Indian Heritage

Posted on May 22, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

 “No trip is too brief to enrich our lives as we acquire knowledge of other places and enlarge our cultural perspective.” —Carole Glickfeld, Author      Recently, I was invited to do a book signing at Auntie’s Book Store in Spokane, … Continue reading →

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Oxford, England # 3

Posted on May 1, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

“I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!” —Lord Coleridge (1820-94)      Even though my sister Anne was mending from her massive brain hemorrhage, she … Continue reading →

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Oxford, England

Posted on April 15, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

 “Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge . . . and the traveler is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.”—Baedeker’s Great Britain (1887) An aspect of travel that … Continue reading →

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LA FOCE: A Tuscan Shangri-la.

Posted on March 5, 2013 by rosemariecurteman

     In my first book, My Renaissance:  A Widow’s Healing Pilgrimage to Tuscany, I discuss how after my husband’s death in the mid 1990s, I decided to go back to school to study art history, a part of my education … Continue reading →

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In Boise, Idaho: A Book Signing

Posted on December 11, 2012 by rosemariecurteman

   Last July I was invited to do a book signing at Rediscovered Books in Boise, the capital and most populous city in the state of Idaho.  Everyone has heard of Idaho’s Sun Valley, that celebrated resort town, famous for … Continue reading →

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