Today Gaye and I traveled to the little known pueblo of Tucson, Arizona to participate in the Tucson Book Festival on the University of Arizona campus. There was hardly anyone there - somewhere around a hundred thousand people each of the two days.
If you love books, this is the place to congregate. There are approximately 400 authors that come and do writers workshops, talk about their books and mingle with the little people with big desires to become "writers".
And then there are booths with "stuff" everywhere. There are, of course, book vendors and purveyors of shirts, hats, bags and even night shirts. There are the hawkers of food and drink. And there are vendors of everything in between: private and public schools, book and writers clubs, language studies. And there are hundreds of kid's activities. 10-5 for a couple of days is definitely not enough!
Then it is off to dinner at El Sur at 22nd street and Craycroft. It is a little hole-in-the-wall place with really good food. Ben, Jenn and the kids had also been at the Festival. They recommended the place and met us there along with Paul and Jess with their girls and Beth. The video says it all.
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