Category: Writers at Work
Up until the pandemic, being a travel writer often topped the list of the world’s most enviable professions–especially if you could wiggle your way into the luxury travel niche. …
It all started with every travel writer’s dream assignment. An editor for a travel trade publication handed me the task of reviewing a variety of four- and five-star resorts …
When I tell people about my current position as a guidebook writer, they are quick to jump in with words of envy. “You’re so lucky,” and “That must be …
The travel press often gets criticized for whitewashing any unsavory aspects of tourism and travel, for making every place sound #perfect and #dreamy, seldom shining a light on the …
Over time your travel memories usually get more selective and more positive. You tend to nudge out the unpleasant parts and focus on the beautiful scenes, the helpful people, …
It’s 10:30am and I’m sitting at my desk, laboring over the lead–or what we in the industry call “the hook”–for a sweeping 2,500-word feature story commissioned by a glossy …
The DH Lawrence Ranch Re-Opens for Visitors ‘This was the spiritual place he found, that he had always been searching for,’ Robert Cafazzo tells me as we huddle against …
Travel has ruled my existence for the past decade and a half, with life always revolving around ‘away.’ Starting with a backpacking trip around Europe and branching out to …
I turned the pages carefully, the 42 year old cursive handwriting immersing me in the journey of a lifetime. I held in my hands the travel diary that my …
Last year was a flurry of passport stamps and longhaul flights as I traveled coast to coast here at home, and circled the globe. I cruised the Mediterranean, ate …
I looked at our room in Mexico City. Two narrow beds crowned with flat pillows, slid side by side. A window. A miniature wastebasket. That was it. Our door …
Imagine being in a room with all your favorite travel writers and having conversations about writing, travel, and life. That’s what Michael Shapiro’s A Sense of Place is all …