Have traveled to more than 30 countries (on every continent except Antarctica); published travel writer; invited speaker.

• See my published articles, stories, and broadcasts on my Portfolio page.
• Edit and publish Travel Writers News, a newsletter and calendar of events for San Francisco-based travel writers and photographers (ongoing since 2003).
• Guest faculty at Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference (2006).
• Invited reader at Jamaica’s annual Calabash International Literary Festival, where I read to an enthusiastic audience of 2,000 people (2004).
• Elected officer and board member (2007) of Bay Area Travel Writers, a “nonprofit, professional association of writers and photographers with outstanding achievements in travel journalism.” Reelected for 2008.
• Accepted as attendee at Travel Classics West conference — open only to professional travel writers — at Camelback in Scottsdale, AZ ( 2004).
• Invited reader at San Francisco Litquake’s Litcrawl: The Wide, Wide World of Travel Writing (2004).
• Invited reader at Adventure Travel Expo in San Mateo (2004).