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Southwest Books of the Year 2002
Arizona Reflections: A Travel Journal by Linda Kranz, photography by Klaus Kranz. Northland Publishing, unpaginated, $16.95. Not a library book but a gift book with pages allotted to personal journal notes.
Fearlessbooks
Arizona Reflections succeeds where many write-in journals fail. It’s neither sentimental in tone nor pushy in format, providing the touring writer with little topic-starters (“Today we drove to …,” “What was the weather like?,” “What I will remember most about this getaway?”) that are unobtrusive enough to be ignored if you don’t need them. The photography is consistently fine and well placed.
A Gathering of Writers
Arizona Reflections is a handy travel journal organized into three sections or categories: day trips, weekend trips, and vacations. For those who like to record information about their trips, there s ample room for written comments and there is a most unexpected bonus. The colorful photographs gracing the pages are absolutely wonderful. They alone are worth the price of the book. If the photo’s were enlarged and placed in a coffee table–type book it would be gorgeous!
Southwest Book Views
Arizona Reflections, a well-designed, hardcover travel journal, contains stunning photos of Arizona’s natural beauty and lined pages that allow the traveler to record personal thoughts and experiences. Inspiring quotations and starting-off points along the lines of “The view from my window is …” are included.
Just Say Go
I’ve been traveling and keeping a travel journal since I was eight years old. The destinations and the written content may have changed since then, but the idea of trying to capture and record those wondrous new things on the road has not. Facing a blank page can be very daunting, so Arizona Reflections: A Travel Journal is perfect; the superb photographs inspire us to get out and see such beautiful places for ourselves and the prompts in each section encourage us to record what we saw and did. I really like the discreet prompts as they don’t dominate the page at all, but just jog the memory in creative ways, while the travel quotes on some pages are sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, but always thought-provoking. This journal will prompt us to have reflections, not only on Arizona but on any travel destination. I know I will pack it next time I travel anywhere.
