BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Meetup Inc//RemoteApi//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/ical/San+Francisco+Tr avel+Book+Club+and+Lecture+Series/ X-WR-CALNAME:Events - San Francisco Travel Book Club and Lecture Series BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An Evening in Conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest DESCRIPTION:Travel Meetups > San Francisco Travel Book Club and Lecture Ser ies\n\nJoin the SF Travel Book Club and Lecture Series for an amazing Eveni ng in Conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest!\n\nMexican Enough: My Li fe Between the Borderlines\n\nGrowing up in a half-white\, half-brown town and family in South Texas\, Stephanie Elizondo Griest struggled with her cu ltural identity. Upon turning thirty\, she ventured to her mother's native Mexico to do a little root-searching and improve her “Tarzan Lite” Spanish. She stumbled upon a burgeoning social movement that shook parts of the nat ion to its core. MEXICAN ENOUGH chronicles her journey\, from the narco-inf ested border town of Nuevo Laredo to the highlands of Chiapas. She investig ates the murder of a prominent gay activist\, sneaks into prison to meet wi th resistance fighters\, rallies with rebels in Oaxaca\, and interviews sco res of migrant workers and the families they were forced to leave behind. T ravel companions include a Polish thief\, a Border Patrol agent\, and a Dom inatrix. Part memoir\, part journalistic reportage\, MEXICAN ENOUGH illumin ates how we cast off our identity in our youth\, only to strive to find it again as adults -- and the\nlessons to be learned along the way. MEXICAN EN OUGH is the August pick of the National Latino Book Club\, the Association of American Publishers\, and Las Comadres. \n\nAbout the Author: Stephanie Elizondo Griest\n\nStephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian M afiya\, polished\nChinese propaganda\, and belly danced with Cuban rumba qu eens. These\nadventures inspired her award-winning memoir AROUND THE BLOC: MY LIFE IN\nMOSCOW\, BEIJING\, AND HAVANA (Villard/Random House\, 2004) and guidebook 100 PLACES EVERY WOMAN SHOULD GO (Travelers Tales\, 2007). She h as explored five continents and once drove 45\,000 miles across America in a Honda Hatchback named Bertha. A 2005-2006 Hodder Fellow at Princeton Univ ersity\, she recently won the Richard J. Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting. Visit her website at www.mexicanenough.com.\n\nSan Francisco\, C A 94123 - USA\n\nTuesday\, October 28 at 7:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos2. meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/f/8/c/event_5724460.jpeg\n\nAttending: 29\n \nDetails: http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8491359/ LAST-MODIFIED:20080806T201422Z UID:event_8491359@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20080806T201300Z DTSTAMP:20081013T032453Z DTSTART:20081029T020000Z DTEND:20081029T040000Z GEO:37.78;-122.42 URL:http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8491359/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An Evening in Conversation with Rolf Potts - SF Travel Lecture Seri es Nov. 2008 DESCRIPTION:Travel Meetups > San Francisco Travel Book Club and Lecture Ser ies\n\nFor the past ten years\, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern tr avel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigio us publications as National Geographic Traveler\, Salon.com\, and The New Y ork Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest\, funniest\, and most r evealing journeys from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert\ , to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand\, to learnin g the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.\n\nMarco Polo Didn 't Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corn ers of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing\, with e ach chapter containing a "commentary track" endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insigh tful\, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as we ll as armchair wanderers.\n\nRolf Potts Author Bio:\nRolf Potts has reporte d from more than sixty countries for the likes of Salon.com\, Slate.com\, N ational Geographic Traveler\, Outside\, the New York Times Magazine\, Condé Nast Traveler\, The Believer\, and National Public Radio. His adventures h ave taken him across six continents\, and include piloting a fishing boat 9 00 miles down the Laotian Mekong\, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe\, trav ersing Israel on foot\, bicycling across Burma\, and driving a Land Rover f rom Sunnyvale\, California to Ushuaia\, Argentina. He has won four Lowell T homas Awards for travel writing\, and his essays have appeared in over twen ty literary anthologies\, including The Best Travel Writing\, The Best Amer ican Travel Writing\, The Best Creative Nonfiction\, and several collection s of travel humor.\n\nThough he rarely stays in one place for more than a f ew weeks or months\, Potts feels somewhat at home in Bangkok\, Cairo\, Pusa n\, New Orleans\, and north-central Kansas\, where he keeps a small farmhou se on thirty acres near his family. Each July he can be found in France\, w here he is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy. Hi s online home is at www.rolfpotts.com.\n\nSan Francisco\, CA 94123 - USA\n \nTuesday\, November 18 at 7:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos2.meetupstatic.co m/photos/event/5/f/8/c/event_5724460.jpeg\n\nAttending: 28\n\nDetails: http ://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8302449/ LAST-MODIFIED:20080806T214942Z UID:event_8302449@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20080708T231520Z DTSTAMP:20081013T032453Z DTSTART:20081119T030000Z DTEND:20081119T050000Z GEO:37.78;-122.42 URL:http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8302449/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey - SF Travel Book Club December Mee ting DESCRIPTION:Travel Meetups > San Francisco Travel Book Club and Lecture Ser ies\n\nDetails: \nTitle: Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey\nWhen: Wednesday \, December 3rd - 7:00-8:30pm \nWhere: Books\, Inc.\, 2251 Chestnut Stree t\, San Francisco\, CA \nWho: FREE and Open to the Public! \n\nFacilitate d by Tara Russell of Three Month Visa Coaching and Consulting in partnershi p with Books\, Inc. \n\nIf you don't already own a copy of this title\, yo u can go to Books\, Inc. now to receive 15% off the purchase price of the b ook! \n\nFeel free to contact me with any questions - I look forward to me eting you! \n\nDetails at: Travel Book Club Info\n\nSan Francisco\, CA 94 123 - USA\n\nWednesday\, December 3 at 7:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos2.mee tupstatic.com/photos/event/5/f/8/c/event_5724460.jpeg\n\nAttending: 4\n\nDe tails: http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8883817/ LAST-MODIFIED:20081002T220805Z UID:event_8883817@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20081002T220805Z DTSTAMP:20081013T032453Z DTSTART:20081204T030000Z DTEND:20081204T050000Z GEO:37.78;-122.42 URL:http://travel.meetup.com/1027/calendar/8883817/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR