How Pop Culture Can Spark Your Travels

As a baby boomer, most of my pop cultural touchstones date back to the 1950s through the 1970s.

Bob Dylan will always speak more to me than Jay Z;  the Kardashians are only names to me. What is it they do, exactly? I have no idea.

My all-time favorite actors and actresses are long since deceased; some of my favorite movies were filmed in black and white. But many of them — along with popular songs, books, and TV shows — have played crucial roles in developing my love of travel, and continue to do so to this day.

The first movie I can remember seeing on the big screen — around 1952  — was The African Queen with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn; it was playing at my local theater as part of a double feature with another classic, High Noon.

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