I received an email from a tour guide, Jack, I had met in Copenhagen: “I’m touring Central America, would you like to join?” Though I’d only known the man for 12 hours as we toured the bars in the City of Spires, I immediately bought a plane ticket. My travel writing career had begun six […]
Raise your hand if you’re a travel writer plagued by an uncomfortable mix of stubborn pride and imposter syndrome. As I ventured into the travel writing realm, I felt deceptive calling myself a “travel writer.” I was a traveler and I was a writer, but with no published pieces to my name I deemed myself […]
I never thought I would make it as a travel writer. Sure, it was a dream—the same dream that many writers, travelers, and anyone who’s a fan of Anthony Bourdain has dared to dream. But, was I certain it would happen? Far from it. In fact, I nearly quit writing altogether a mere month before […]
A few days after stamping a 30th country into my passport, I became a published travel writer. The elation of seeing my journey to a coffee plantation published in a Costa Rican magazine was quickly met with utter panic: three years of travels throughout Europe and Central America were completed under the wide-eyed gaze of […]
