As I'm capping off the last of four travel-writing trips, I'm still reeling over this remarkable lifestyle I’m experiencing as a freelance travel writer.  In just five weeks, I got to do the following:  Dance with Miss Mexico on an enchanting once-in-a-lifetime...

In 2016 I attended the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in New Orleans.  As I sat in the workshop and listened to the speakers, it was as if a light-bulb suddenly came on. I knew how to write, and I knew how to craft a pitch. It was the marketing part of travel...

“It's a magical world, Hobbes, ole' buddy, let's go exploring....” —Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes No wonder I loved reading this comic strip book to my kids when they were little; perhaps I knew, all those years ago, that words between best friends would someday...

Show me the company you keep and I’ll tell you who you are.  It’s something my friend Erica’s grandmother liked to say but Erica was never a big fan of it.  She thought her grandmother was trying to get her to judge people—to look down her nose at those who were...