Personalized books make great gifts

Do you know someone who loves Idaho? Maybe someone who's moving here for the first time or coming back after some time away? Idaho Off the Beaten Path is the perfect gift for that person!

Idaho's most-often-updated guidebook is now available for purchase directly from the author, who will personalize and autograph it for your recipient (or for you). Use your debit or credit card, or your PayPal account. Just look for the yellow "Buy Now" button" at right.

Here are some messages you might want in the book:

"Come visit soon!"
"Idaho misses you."
"Welcome to Idaho."
"Welcome back. Idaho has missed you."
"Here's to your great future in Idaho."

Support local Idaho businesses and give Idaho Off the Beaten Path to your friends and family. Real estate agents, personnel recruiters, convention planners ... you can say thanks and welcome with this book, too!

Welcome back, Treasure magazine!

I'm pleased to say I am the travel columnist for the Idaho Statesman's newly relaunched Treasure magazine, which was delivered this morning to all Boise-area subscribers of the state's largest newspaper. You can read much of it online, too; here's my story on Riggins. This re-debut issue also includes Rick Overton's profile of Bella Aquila restaurant in Eagle and Dana Oland's cover piece on the Trey McIntyre Project, an internationally known modern dance company that moved to Boise two years ago. Also worth a read: editor Holly Anderson's note about why Treasure is back now, after a year's hiatus.

The 8th edition is coming mid-June

The new edition of Idaho Off the Beaten Path will be out in mid-June 2010. Sign up at the publisher's website to receive an email when it becomes available, and check back this summer for news of book signings and other special events. UPDATE: I'll be signing books at the Capital City Public Market in Boise on Saturday, June 19. See more details in the comments below.

Idaho Off the Beaten Path is updated every other year, far more often than any other print guidebook to the state. The 8th edition features plenty of new "finds" around the state, plus new information on longtime favorite attractions. Feel free to list suggestions for additions to future editions in the comments below, too.