My fishing was interrupted by my sister and brother shouting a loud, “Whoa, look.” I did, just in time to see a school bus-sized humpback whale fall from the sky and hit the water with the largest splash I’d ever seen. He was just one of several whales we saw that day under the gaze […]
As I skied down the slopes of Aspen Snowmass to our ski-in-ski-out hotel, it seemed like a dream. My wife and I were on a trip where we stayed at two different slope-side hotels free of charge because I’m a travel writer. Just two months earlier, we stayed at a private wine-country cottage in the […]
As I enter my second full year of travel writing, it never ceases to amaze me what sells. I found I can dig way back into my past and write stories of my time in Alaska – in the 1970s, I spent nearly a year on Kodiak Island and one year in the Bering Strait […]
As I sat in the seats of the 2015 Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in Denver, I had doubts of my success. That little voice of “You can’t be a travel writer because you have no training” kept rearing its ugly little head. The article queries I’d sent out over the preceding nine months had mostly […]
