When you look at some of the most successful people of our time – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg, Madonna… they all have one thing in common. And it’s the very same thing that our most successful members here at GEP have. In fact, it has completely changed lives… like […]
Should a travel writer invest in travel and evacuation insurance? I’m probably one of the best travel writers to weigh in on this issue of who needs travel insurance. On May 15, 2014, while traveling in Cape Town, South Africa, our car was T-boned by another vehicle at full speed on the passenger side where […]
She stood statue-still, waiting, her creased face emotionless as bees swarmed around her body. I felt drawn to her, as if she was the reason I was there. Bonnie here, again, coming to you with one last tale of adventure from our Travel Writing Expedition in India. Summers are hot and bone-dry in the Rajasthan […]
They say the average person eats 10,354 chocolate bars in a lifetime. I’m certainly doing my share. Only thing is – I get paid for it because I’m a travel writer. One of the cool things about being a travel writer is that it often leads you down unexpected paths. In my case, it led […]
It started with monkeys. As we drove down the street, we spotted them running along the rooftops and swinging off the power lines. Then, before we knew it, elephants came lumbering by on our left, their faces painted in bright colors, followed by camels on the right, and a few goats trotting all over the […]
“One day, you’re just doing what you love, and all of a sudden the next day, you can’t get through the checkout line at the grocery store without someone pointing at you and shouting your name.” The woman who said those words knows intimately what it’s like to be famous, what it means to have […]
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Editors like to write headlines. Or, well, “like” might be overstating the matter. Editors write headlines. Editors write headlines… writers do not. That is what conventional wisdom tells us. And, indeed, the vast majority of the time, whatever headline you might put on your story when you submit it to an editor is not the […]
A hospice worker recently revealed these top five regrets of the dying. Let travel writing change your life…so you have no regrets when it’s too late…
I’ve made a career out of traveling to countries, having multi-hued affairs with them, and then writing about them. My fourth travel book, The Directions to Happiness: A 135-Country Quest for Life Lessons celebrates the results of this strategy, but the following five-stage plan delves deeper. In order to get your mini PhD on a […]
