As a three-time expat (Bahrain, Japan and the Netherlands) and enthusiastic traveler, Sheila Scarborough is equally comfortable looking for plastic food on Kappabashi Dori in Asakusa, Tokyo, boot-scooting at Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth or enjoying high tea at Fortnum and Mason, London. A full-time freelance writer, she blogs about family travel for BootsnAll and NHRA drag racing for Fast Machines.

Married with two children and retired from the Navy, she thinks everyone ought to have a passport and experience jet lag.

She has written for National Geographic Traveler, Texas Highways, Transitions Abroad, CHOW.com,  the San Antonio Express-News and the Dallas Morning News. Her BootsnAll Family Travel blog was a “Best of the net” (Best Practical Blog) in the UK’s Guardian newspaper in March ‘07, one of three “Best Travel Blogs” in the March ‘08 issue of Real Simple magazine and a best blog for family travel in the UK’s Telegraph newspaper in November ‘08.

She also blogs about tourism and the social Web at Sheila’s Guide to the Good Stuff, part of a new learning community called Tourism Currents that will launch in September 2009.