Travel Writer: Rick Antonson

Rick Antonson has traveled on trains in thirty-five countries and is co-author of a book of railway stories, Whistle Posts West: Railway Tales From British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon. Rick is the former president and CEO of Tourism Vancouver, and served as chair of the board for Destinations International, based in Washington, D.C., and vice…

Travel Writer: Nora Dunn

Nora Dunn (aka The Professional Hobo) is one of the original digital nomads and lifestyle travel bloggers, having started her full-time travel lifestyle in 2006. Specializing in slow travel, she has lived in and traveled through over 70 countries while working remotely. She combines her expertise as a former Certified Financial Planner with her lifestyle travel…

Travel Writer: Nick Hunt

Nick Hunt is the author of three travel books about walking and Europe – Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water – a work of ‘gonzo ornithology’, The Parakeeting of London, and a collection of short fiction, Loss Soup and Other Stories. His articles and features have been published…

Travel Writer: Emily Pennington

Emily Pennington is Outside’s parks and travel columnist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Condé Nast Traveler, Lonely Planet, Adventure Journal, REI, Passport Magazine, and Backpacker, to name a few. She’s visited nearly every national park in the U.S., and her new book Feral: Losing Myself and Finding My Way…

Travel Writer: Andrew X. Pham

Andrew X. Pham is an independent journalist and author. At various periods of his life, he has worked as an aircraft engineer, researcher, technical writer, startup founder, farmer, food critic, pizza chef, bungalow builder, small business owner, literary panelist, teacher, and an MFA faculty. He is a Whiting Writer and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is…

Travel Writer: Bob Payne

Bob Payne is a freelance travel writer who has visited more than 140 countries and had his work appear in such publications as Outside, Men’s Journal, Islands, and Bon Appétit. He was a long-time contributing editor at Conde Nast Traveler, where he believes he remains the only one of their writers to put the cost…

Travel Writer: Bruce Kirkby

Bruce Kirkby is an adventurer, writer and photographer. With journeys spanning more than eighty countries and thirty years, Kirkby’s accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. A columnist…

Travel Writer: Travis Levius

Travis Levius is a freelance travel writer and content creator loosely based between London and Atlanta. He’s written for several publications and outlets including Travel + Leisure, TIME, Condé Nast Traveler, Departures, CNN Travel, AFAR and Forbes Travel Guide, and is a guidebook author of Lonely Planet’s Experiences: London (2022). Travis is also the creator…

Travel Writer: Matt Kepnes

Matt Kepnes runs the award-winning travel site nomadicmatt.com, which helps people travel the world on a budget. He’s the author of the NYT bestseller How to Travel the World on $50 a Day and the travel memoir Ten Years a Nomad. His writings and advice have been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian,…

Travel Writer: Heather Greenwood Davis

Heather Greenwood Davis is a contributing editor/on-air storyteller for National Geographic, a feature writer/columnist for The Globe and Mail, the travel expert on CTV’s national talk program The Social and co-host of Get, Set, Go! on CHCH TV. She is the first and only Black woman to write travel columns for both national newspapers, and…

Travel Writer: Stuart McDonald

Stuart McDonald is an Australian travel writer based in Indonesia. He cofounded Travelfish in 2004, and has been writing about the region since 1997. He currently lives in Bali with his partner Samantha, their two kids, and their dog Skye Govinda. How did you get started traveling? I started traveling early, off the back of…