This week the virtual writers’ group, Writers Abroad, announced the publication of their second anthology Foreign Flavours, which contains 64 contributions, including 33 recipes, from ex-pat writers from around the world. If you’re not familiar with the group, Writers Abroad is an online writing group, founded in 2009, which provides [...]

Being a professional travel writer is probably up there with astronaut and food taster as dream jobs that are highly difficult to obtain. Yet, I stress the word “difficult” — not impossible. In the small world that is the travel writing community, I’ve met more than a few people who’ve [...]

Do you know what makes TheExpeditioner.com great in my eyes (besides the founder’s well-groomed and rugged beard)? It’s the fact that we accept submissions for feature articles from everyone. That’s right, whether you’re a seasoned travel writer with treks to the Hippie Trail in the ’70s and a long resume, [...]

Q&A with Nomad Rolf Potts, Author of Marco Polo Didn´t Go There It is easy to forget that when it comes to “travel writing,” traveling is the easy part. These days, anyone without the last name “Bin Laden” can buy a plane ticket and go just about anywhere. But turning [...]

We usually experience epic moments in the down-and-out. It’s what makes for good stories because (hopefully) these moments are not part of the normal day-to-day. Rain, snow, heat and cold, when we gently suffer through discomfort a bed (even a hostel bed) never feels so cozy. Often, travel woes are [...]

  OK, I’m a dude, and I’ll admit that I just watched Eat, Pray, Love. In my own defense, I received an email from a friend that prompted me to do this, so it wasn’t under my own free will that I entered the theater (or maybe it was). Now, [...]

With accessibility to the internet and traveling becoming a hobby, travel writers are not few and far between. Just the other day, someone asked, “Why do people want to write about travel? Travel writers are everywhere. Why don’t they do something different, something edgy?” Truthfully, the question was humbling, and [...]

Sure, not everyone is a writer, but think about it, aren’t we all, to one degree or another, a travel writer? You may not write articles for some fancy, multi-billion dollar global conglomerate like the New York Times or TheExpeditioner.com, but think about it, how many of us write travel [...]

Twenty-foot walls of water, stomach-turning heaves, pbj sandwiches lost at sea. These are the trials and tribulations of one man´s quest to capture the Giant Squid, found off the shores of New Zealand. WorldHum has just released an excerpt of David Grann´s new book, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, a [...]

When you are a travel writer, you are living in two worlds. One world is based on the existential experience of belonging: finding out where you belong or how things belong. The other world is finding words to express that which you have discovered. Without one, you would not have [...]