Recently, my wife and I were guests of a country inn located in Leola, Pennsylvania. We dined at the inn’s five-star restaurant and stayed in a luxury suite, all on the house.  Staying in boutique hotels and sipping fine wine may be your motivation for becoming a...

“There’s no way I can be a real travel writer,” I told myself. “I never go anywhere!”  I wanted to be a travel writer, but how could I even begin?  My travel budget was $0.  I lacked the money to fly to Venice, explore the Balkans, or cruise to Cuba. And without any...

Thanks to the internet, it’s a whole lot easier to get a byline these days relative to just a few short years ago. Literally thousands of websites, blogs, online magazines, and other outlets are looking for great content.  But here’s the thing: There are also...

When I was a young girl, my parents made goals. Once, there was talk of us taking a summer vacation together down on the sandy beaches of Rhode Island. Mom and Dad spent the year saving money toward a house we could rent. That vacation never happened. Dad suffered a...

I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions. People make them, break them, and then feel guilty and regretful afterward.  So when I began my travel-writing career in the fall of 2014, I set a professional travel-writing goal the following New Year that I called a “promise...