One Step at a Time: Q & A with Brandon Wilson Brandon Wilson is an award-winning travel writer with a passion for trekking. He and his wife Cheryl hiked 650 miles through the Himalayas along an ancient pilgrims’ trail from Tibet to Nepal. He has also walked the Way of…
Beth Simmons reviews A Moveable Feast, an anthology of food-related travel adventures by writers like Jan Morris, Andrew Zimmern and Anthony Bourdain.
When Travel Really Stinks: Bad Trips Excerpted by Devon Magoon The eclectic collection of travel writing, Bad Trips, edited by Keath Fraser, chronicles a smattering of reportage, fiction, and poetry accrued from the experiences of 50 esteemed writers. For those that find themselves most alive when tracing the veins of…
Neville and Julie write about walking the Via Francigena from Switzerland to Rome, sampling the cuisine in the five regions of Italy in a pilgrimage.
Rough Guides’ new book ‘Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: 1,000 Travel Experiences’ lists exciting travel adventures around the world in winter.
Ann Kidd Taylor and Sue Ann Kidd, co-authors of Traveling with Pomegranates, write about their mother-daughter relationship, their creative lives, and the alchemy of travel.
By Beth Simmons Renowned travel writer Tim Leffel puts the glitz and glamour of travel journalism aside in his new book, Travel Writing 2.0: Earning Money From Your Travels in The New Media Landscape, to tell the facts when it comes to turning this love interest into a career. Leffel…
What’s a Resort Really Like? Watch a Video of the Guests Or Ask a Local! By Beth Simmons The Internet is a go-to source of information for travelers looking to book their next trip. Look up any destination and you’re likely to find a written description and photos. However, depending…
An Atlas of Islands You’ll Probably Never Ever visit: But Veley Has! By Beth Simmons Is it possible to confuse a romance novel for an atlas? Judith Schalansky thinks they’re one and the same. She describes her passion beautifully, “For me, Atlases are the most poetic books of all, the…
An excerpt from Kimberley Lovato and Laura Schmalhorst’s book about culinary travel to France’s Dordogne Region, Walnut Wine and Truffle Groves,
An excerpt from Brandon Wilson’s new book Over the Top and Back Again: Hiking X the Alps, about this devoted hiker’s journeys over the Alps
Good travel writing not only tells you what you need to know but describes the location with such sensory details that the reader feels the experience. City of Stairways: A Poet’s Field Guide to San Francisco, although a poetry collection, evokes a sensory experience so similar it must be good…
