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Go World Travel writers span the globe...
Expert insight from journalists who know the
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Janice Arenofsky (Traveling Solo to Tanque Verde) is a freelance writer based in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has written feature articles, essays and profiles for many national venues, including Modern Maturity, Newsweek, onhealth.com, Notre Dame Magazine, National Wildlife and VFW Magazine. She enjoys traveling alone, even though saying so may not be politically correct. |
Arizona, USA |
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Sue Cockburn Bowyer (Horsing Around in Spain) is an Englishwoman living and working in London, who rates travel as one of her most favorite pastimes. She has visited Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Greece, Egypt and parts of Europe. She has been to the States three times and has an ambition to go to Borneo and work at the urang-utang sanctuary. |
London, England |
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Ian Dorant (Sakura Spirit) is an Australian who has lived and worked in Japan, Slovakia and Germany. Confronted by the wealth of sights and experiences along the way he has continued to record his experiences on 35mm film while developing inventive ways to dodge x-ray machines. He maintains a busy schedule of field trips, ideally to where the ice cream is cheap, while fitting in time for kendo (Japanese fencing) training, windsurfing and German studies. Find out more at www.iandorant.com. |
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Erin Gehan (Childless in Seattle) is a freelance writer from Bernardsville, New Jersey. Writing for the building engineering industry, her credits include the book, A Century of Engineering for Architecture 1898-1998. Erin’s personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Old House Journal, Mothering and various parenting publications.
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Contributing writer Robert James Smith (Rizal Park), a former soldier, is a freelance travel writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His work has appeared in several Canadian and American publications and on the Internet. He has visited 30 countries, many more than once. |
Ontario, Canada |
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Amanda Kendle (Hotel Sidi Driss) is an Australian addicted to traveling. She has lived and worked in Japan, Slovakia and Germany, and spends her free time writing about past trips and planning future ones. Finances for these come from her job as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages, and she worries that she learns more from her students than they do from her. Find out more at www.amandakendle.com.
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George Quraishi (Ljubljana) is a senior at Yale University. His writing has appeared in the St. Petersburg Times and the Yale Daily News Magazine. He has traveled in 24
countries and enjoyed all of them. His next adventure will be a quest for gainful employment. |
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David Rich (Tanzania's Ol Doinyo Lengai) retired in his 40s to become a fulltime international traveler, an occupation far preferable to his former professions of trial lawyer, law professor and part-time judge. He’s pursued freelance travel writing and exotic travel for 12 years, living so far in 93 countries. See his website, www.mytripjournal.com/RichWorld, featured on www.lonelyplanet.com in July 2004. He’s currently in Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa, trekking Kilimanjaro and several other mountains, before continuing into Kenya. |
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Jim Soliski (Iguacu Falls) was born on a Friday the 13th fortysome years ago and grew up in Evansburg, Alberta, Canada, a small farming community where he lived a Huckleberry Finn childhood. He's traveled to nearly 50 countries and has had published more than 180 stories in 60 different publications worldwide. He recently self-published Does Your Meter Work?!, a paperback anthology of his stories. For info, see www.DoesYourMeterWork.com. |
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Susan Van Allen (Genoa) is a Los Angeles-based writer. She has written for the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” and about her travels for National Public Radio’s “Savvy Traveler,” CNN.com, and various newspapers and magazines. |
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