Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

We all know the joy of traveling doesn’t start the minute you leave the house and end when you get home. There is the anticipation in the days or weeks or months leading up to the trip. Then, ...

For a travel essay, use the same basic elements as in a personal essay: A lead that grabs the reader’s attention. It can be one to three paragraphs. Consider an anecdote about your trip, a quote, or a ...

Five travel guide authors offer a behind-the-postcard look at their job. Carolyn McCarthy, author of more than 40 Lonely Planet guidebooks What can a guidebook offer that a web search can’t? The ...

I recently led an all-day in-the-field writing workshop in one of my favorite places on the planet, the hamlet of Point Reyes Station, population about 900, located an hour west of San Francisco, on ...