I didn’t know that I was dead. Yet the computer confirmed this during my surprising family history search in a St. George Utah family search center. “So I’m dead,” I said to my Family History Consultant. “According to a gentleman in Scotland.” “Yes, well, apparently so,” she said. At the Saint George Utah FamilySearch Center, […]
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From the shameless self-promotion department, I’m happy to announce that I won a Solas Award for Best Travel Writing. I won the Gold in the category of Travel Memoir for my story, “From Mill Valley With Love.” Mill Valley with the spires of San Francisco beyond. And here’s the story below. From Mill Valley with
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“No, no,” said the statale, or Italian government worker. “I cannot help you.” During my visit to Ostuni in Italy, I was running into the most Italian of obstacles, the civil servant. Our face-off took place in the town hall, the Palazzo Municipale, a former 1304 Franciscan convent. The sign on his door read Servizi
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We could smell Rotorua before we arrived. This tidy New Zealand town introduces itself with the strong stench of sulphur and distant steaming curls of fumaroles rising high in the sky, all from this spa town’s mighty geothermal features. As we passed hot spring spas, tourist shops and cricket pitches, steam wafted from sewer grates.
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To become a travel writer, books and websites often portray a lucky sucker swinging in a beach hammock with a laptop as a tropical sunset blooms behind her. That’s the myth of the travel writer.
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If you want to be a high-earning travel writer in charge of your own business, first read my tale of what to NOT do.
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Go Slow on Caye Caulker For a true barefoot vacation, tiny Caye Caulker, off the coast of Belize, offers Caribbean color and below the radar vacationing. Once a stop on the hippie Gringo Trail, which included Isla Mujeres, Tulum, and Guatemala’s Tikal and Lake Atitlan, today the isle is a quiet getaway for backpackers and
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Never will you feel as if you’ve landed in the future as you will in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Part stable financial center, such as Switzerland and part unbridled architectural riot such as Shanghai, Dubai is a cultural phoenix rising from the ashes of its hubris as a once tiny pearl trading
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Around the Isle of Bora Bora Isolated and untouched, Bora Bora has a mystical relationship with sun and sea, encircled by a jewel of a lagoon. James Michener had proclaimed Bora Bora as the “most beautiful island in the world” and he was right. Yet, despite a never-ending tide of words that has extolled its
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Promote yourself with a polished, professional travel writer’s website and get noticed! After putting some work into growing your website and blog, you can attract writing assignments or increase the sales of your books. However, just with the park bench above, you can have the prettiest site but it serves no purpose unless you have
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