Mr. Burrow's mother had a long tradition of keeping detailed records of all the family vacations. She shared these in the form of travel letters that she sent to her penpals around the world.  Margaret Burrow, David's sister, kept up this tradition when she was studying in Europe during college. She sent back regular installments of a very detailed account of her travels.

More recently David Burrow has taken up the torch. He has written extensively about his travels, compiling more than seventy lengthy travelogues detailing the people, places, and things he has encountered around the country and throughout the world. Many of these writings (some edited, and some in their entirety) are featured as links from this page. He has made a tradition of revising them six years after they were originally written.  They are given here in Acrobat/.pdf format.

Mr. Burrow has been keeping travel diaries for a long time. Here he is in 1977 keeping track of the family's journey to Alaska.

Norman Rockwell "Golden Rule" mosaic at Thanksgiving Square - Dallas, Texas
(While Mr. Burrow didn't care a lot for Dallas as a whole, Thanksgiving Square is one of the most beautiful and inspiring places he's ever been.)

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1985) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Spain, Portugal, & Morocco (1985) (REVISED- Acrobat/.pdf file)
Vancouver World's Fair (1986) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Weekend in Winnipeg (1987) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Amherst (The Maritime Provinces - 1987) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Badlands (1987) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Northward (Canada's Prairie Provinces - 1988) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Mexico (1988) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf file)
Newfoundland (1989) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Dixie (1990) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
University of Southern Mississippi (1991-1992) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Florida (1992) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Great Southwest (1994) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Dallas--with the Quiz Bowl Team (1995) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
New Orleans--with the Quiz Bowl Team (1996) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Chicago (1996) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Christmas in New Mexico (1996) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Washington--with the Quiz Bowl Team (1997) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
New York City--with the Quiz Bowl Team (1998) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Getaways - Travelogues I Never Wrote (USA & Canada - 1998) (NEW - Acrobat/.pdf)
Christmas In Chicago (1998) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Strolling through T.O. (Toronto) (1999) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
An Amtrak Adventure ... OR ... Pilgrimage to Plymouth (2000) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Christmas in Dixie (Gulf Coast & New Orleans - 2000) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
California Without a Car (Los Angeles & San Francisco - 2001) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Boys of Summer (Baseball in the Midwest - 2002) (NEW - Acrobat/.pdf)
Back to New Orleans with the Quiz Bowl Team (2002) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Europe (France & Spain - 2002) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Blooming Desert at Easter ... AND ... Springtime in the Borderland (California - 2003) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
St. Louis with the Quiz Bowl Team (2003) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Baseball Road Trip - 2003 (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Washington & Philadelphia - with the Quiz Bowl Team (2004) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Extra Innings - A Second Baseball Road Trip (2004) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Christmas on the Empire Builder ... or a Holiday Made in Oregon (2004) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Southern California (2005) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Chicago with the Quiz Bowl Team (2005) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Quick Getaway (Dallas and Oklahoma City - 2005) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Subway Safari (New York City - 2005) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Memphis & Miami (2005) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Festive Season in London (2005 - 2006) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
I'm Dreaming of a White Easter (Alaska - 2006) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Inca Sun (Peru 2006) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Baseball Getaways (USA 2006) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Playing Around in Chicago (Christmas 2006) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
After the Storm (Gulf Coast 2007) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Back East (New York, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania - 2007) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Boxing Week in Vancouver (2007 - 2008) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Snowy Easter in Milwaukee (2008) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Chicago--with and Without the Quiz Bowl Team (2008) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Montreal (2008 - 2009) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Big Easy Is Back - New Orleans with the Quiz Bowl Team (2009) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Fifty Candles for the 50th State (Hawaii - 2009) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Boston (2009) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Cold, Rainy Weekend in Puget Sound ... OR ... Sleepless in Seattle (2010) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Washington, D.C. - National Quiz Bowl(2010) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
More Bites from the Big Apple (New York - 2010) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Train They Call the City of New Orleans (Christmas, 2010) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Two Trips South (Texas [for Baseball] & Louisiana [for Quiz Bowl] 2011) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Travel Saga (Iceland - 2011) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Murphy's Law in Chicago (Quiz Bowl - 2012) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
The Next Vacation is ... Toronto (Canada - 2012) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Mr. Burrow Goes to Washington ... and Chicago, Too (Christmas, 2012) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
# It Is What It Is (Quiz Bowl in Alexandria - 2013) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Two (and a Half) for One (The Great Midwest: Part 1 - 2013) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Hell or High Water (Calgary & Glacier - 2013) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Springfield (The Great Midwest: Part 2 - 2013) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Epilogue--Illinois (The Great Midwest: Part 3 - 2014) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Success in New Orleans (Quiz Bowl - 2014) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Plan B (Upstate New York - 2014) ( REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Bitersweet Sixteen (National Quiz Bowl in Washington - 2015) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Destination Hudson Bay ... or Ahoy, Metis (Churchill - 2015) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Close, But No Cigar (Quiz bowl in Chicago - 2016) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Trains, Planes, & Automobiles (Los Angeles & Other Places  - 2016) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Summer Getaways (Around the Midwest - 2016) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Happiness & Sadness (Quiz Bowl in New Orleans [and Margaret Sullivan's Death] - 2017) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Chasing History (New York - 2017) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Texas - 2018 (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Soak Up the Sun (Orlando with the Quiz Bowl Team - 2018) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Westward Ho!  (Utah, California, & Colorado - 2018) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Christmas in the True North (Ottawa - 2018) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
Back to Chicago:  20th Trip to National Quiz Bowl - 2019 (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
If It's Not One Thing, It's Another (Canada - 2019) (REVISED - Acrobat/.pdf)
A Getaway amid the Madness (Portland & Seattle - 2020) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Texas Road Trip (Big Bend Country - 2021) (Acrobat/.pdf)
A Little Bit of Everything (San Juan to San Francisco - 2021) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Land of the Christmas Cactus (Phoenix - 2021) (Acrobat/.pdf)
All Aboard! (Amtrak Out East - 2022) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Kia Ora, Aotearoa (New Zealand - 2023) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Go East, Old Man (New York  - The Consolation Prize 2023) (Acrobat/.pdf)
It's Christmas Time in the City (Chicago 2023) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Winnipeg (2024) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Quiz Bowl in New Orleans (2024) (Acrobat/.pdf)
Eastern Road Trip (2024) (Acrobat/.pdf)
A Piedmont Christmas (Charlotte 2024) (Acrobat/.pdf)
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