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 Al Argueta
At the age of three, Al Argueta first traveled to Guatemala with his father and would later live in Guatemala for two years, allowing him to formally learn Spanish and to experience Guatemala's culture firsthand. During summers in high school and college, Al would take a month off and travel to Guatemala to explore its jungles, Mayan ruins, and villages.
In college, Al majored in Journalism and Latin American Studies. After college, he interned with Costa Rica's Tico Times, getting his first exposure to travel writing and photography, in addition to covering then-President Bill Clinton's visit to Guatemala. Al now lives in Austin, Texas, where he's managed to stay put in one place for an unprecedented five years. He is the author of Moon Guatemala and Moon Living Abroad in Guatemala. Al is currently working on Moon Mexico's Copper Canyon. In addition to writing, he does freelance travel photography for clients that have included National Geographic Adventure, US Airways, Caribbean Travel & Life, Condé Nast Traveler, Outside's GO, and Continental. Guatemala is still his favorite place to photograph. His website is www.alargueta.com.
 Christopher P. Baker
Christopher P. Baker has written for more than 150 publications worldwide and his numerous books include best–selling guidebooks to Cuba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Bahamas, and elsewhere on behalf of such publishers as Avalon Travel Publishing, Frommer's, Lonely Planet, National Geographic Society, and Prentice Hall. He has also contributed chapters to books on behalf of Time–Life and the Discovery Channel.
Baker has been honored with the Society of American Travel Writers' prestigious Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award (seven times, including "Best Travel News Investigative Reporter"), and the Benjamin Franklin Award from Publisher Marketing Association of North America for his Moon Handbooks: Costa Rica. In 1998, he was named "Travel Journalist of the Year" by the Jamaica Tourist Board. In 2002 he won both the Lowell Thomas "Travel Book of the Year" AND the Grand Prize in the North American Travel Journalists Association "Awards of Excellence" for his literary travelog, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba.
 Paul and Lorie Bennett
Paul and Lorie Bennett's travel articles are widely read in the newspapers of CanWest Global, Canada's premier media chain. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, they have won merit awards from the North American Travel Journalists' Association for the creativity and presentation of their stories.
Lorie and Paul have traveled all the continents except Antarctica but, in 2006, got close when they rounded Cape Horn on the Mare Australis. Their stories are at www.ozcantravel.com
 Joshua Berman
Joshua is a freelance writer and trip leader who has spent much of the last 10 years living, working, and traveling throughout Central America. He is an award–winning guidebook author whose titles include Moon Handbooks Belize, Moon Handbooks Nicaragua, and Living Abroad in Nicaragua. His articles have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Yoga Journal, The Boston Globe, Outside Traveler, Transitions Abroad, and Perceptive Travel magazines. He is the creator of "The Tranquilo Traveler" weblog, a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Updated often, The Tranquilo Traveler is a resource for world trippers, a window to the author's travels, and an update on his books and articles. Joshua also leads study delegations and alternative break trips throughout Central America, and is a Wilderness Instructor for Outward Bound. He is currently based in Boulder, Colorado.
 Carole Edrich
An active and well–published freelance travel writer and photographer, Carole's work has been published in five continents and translated into languages as diverse as Hungarian and Indonesian. She is fascinated by the human response to risks and extremes and participates in sports that push mind and body. She loves cycling, wine, and Latin cultures and has been dancing for years. Carole used to own and run a successful international management consultancy and the high–end travel requirements of that lifestyle still inform her reviews. A profound and more recent influence has been her first hand experience of the tsunami and associated recovery efforts.
As the author of three books and numerous articles, Carole has appeared numerous times on radio and TV. She is currently planning the first ever trek along all of Argentina's wine routes for 2009. For more information visit her site www.webwandering.com.
 Emma Fox
Emma Fox fell fast and hard for Latin America while traveling through Honduras, despite a weather situation that left her stranded on the Chachauate Key with the Garifuna people. Since that incident, Chilean cheekbones, Peruvian cuisine, duty free at Jorge Newberry Airport, and some kind-hearted Incans have kept her coming back. The Seattleite spends about 1/3 of her time in South America and fantasizes about making it a permanent scenario.
She has contributed to more than 80 publications, including National Geographic Traveler, Seattle Times, Fodor’s, DailyCandy.com, Portfolio.com, Destination Weddings & Honeymoons, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Fox would consider taming her wanderlust ways if she could settle down in the desert of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, but first needs to perfect her Spanish. Thankfully, Rosetta Stone is helping brilliantly with those efforts.
 Beverly Gallagher
Beverly Gallagher is based in Costa Rica. She is a regular contributor to the travel section of the Central American publication, Tico Times and a hotel reviewer for Northstar Travel Media. She has also published in San Diego Ranch and Coast, the city's luxury lifestyle magazine. She originally hails from San Diego, California and has lived on four continents. After teaching English in the United States, Spain and Japan and working in public relations, she decided to combine three of her great loves: writing, language and travel.
 Nicholas Gill
Writer and photographer Nicholas Gill was born in Columbus, Ohio and splits his time between Lima, Peru and Brooklyn, New York. He travels across Latin America on a regular basis and his work appears in publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, CondeNast Traveler, Caribbean Travel & Life, and World Hum. He has also authored numerous travel guides on Latin American countries for Frommer's and many other publishers. In 2009, he launched an ezine on Latin American food, drink, and travel, New World Review. In late 2010, he will be permanently relocating to Cusco, Peru. Visit his personal website www.nicholas-gill.com for more information.
 Bridget Gleeson
Based in Buenos Aires, Bridget Gleeson is a travel writer who's written extensively about adventure travel, food and wine, and luxury hotels for publications ranging from Lonely Planet and AOL Travel to the in-flight magazines of Delta and Continental Airlines. She lived in Italy and the Czech Republic for two years before migrating to Central and South America, where she first worked for a non-profit in Nicaragua and then took an editorial position at Time Out Buenos Aires. She also writes regularly for Tablet Hotels and has contributed to Sherman's Travel and National Geographic/Personal Explorer.
 Dominic Hamilton
Dominic Hamilton was born in London but now lives in Ecuador. He is the author of Footprint's Peru Handbook, the Traveler's Ecuador Companion, and contributed several chapters to Footprint's South American Handbook. He also wrote first edition of Traveler's Venezuela Companion, which won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Guidebook in 2002.
He is Contributing Editor of South American Explorer magazine, and has published articles in BBC Wildlife, The Independent on Sunday, Geographical, Global Adventure, PerceptiveTravel.com, and thisistravel.co.uk. Visit www.nomadom.net for more on his work and travels.
 Kirsten Hubbard
Kirsten Hubbard is a travel writer based in San Diego, where she graduated with a degree in writing from UCSD. As the Guide to Central America Travel for About.com, Kirsten has traveled through Latin America many times, staying in the region's most luxurious hotels––as well as its most disagreeable. Her writing has appeared in Luxveria Magazine, Destination Weddings and Honeymoons, Pology, 944 San Diego, Bellissima, Pacific Magazine, and others. Previously, she served as Editor in Chief for DiscoverSD.com, and as a columnist for AOL City Guide.
Visit Kirsten's Central America Travel site at gocentralamerica.about.com.
 Sandra Kennedy
Sandra has traveled extensively in thirty-three countries. She taught in American International Schools in Paris, Lisbon and Lima for eight years, but had a dream to combine her travel, photography and writing. After her teaching posts, she began her career as a freelance travel writer and photographer, based in Oregon.
Sandra is the author of Teach and Travel. Her articles have been published in International Living, The Times newspaper, Transitions Abroad, 40Plus, Travel and Leisure UK, Oregon magazine, Offshore Wave, and others.
 John Lamkin
In addition to freelance travel journalism and photography, John Lamkin writes on a regular basis for several online magazines. He is editor of Paloma Blanca Press and an online magazine, Soul of Travel.
Although he travels much of the year, mostly in Latin America, he spends his time at home in a small village in northern New Mexico, near Taos or in his second home on a stunningly beautiful lake in southern Mexico.
Visit John Lamkin’s website at: www.TravelWritingAndPhotography.com.
 Jimmy Langman
Jimmy Langman is an American freelance journalist based in Puerto Varas, Chile. He is a co–author of Fodor's upcoming 2008 travel guidebooks on Chile and Patagonia, and over the past ten years has also written frequently about other destinations in South America such as Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Peru. His diverse articles have appeared in several publications including Newsweek, Outside, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Latin Trade, Decanter, and the London Guardian. Some of his work can be viewed online at his blog, Patagon Journal.
 James McAfee
James McAfee is a veteran magazine and newspaper editor who has written published articles from Morocco, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. He is a member of the Golf Writers of America, a co–founder of the Texas Golf Writers, and a member of the Golf Travel Writers Association. McAfee also served as an administrator with the PGA for 17 years, where he organized pro–ams at some of the top golf resorts in the U.S., Mexico, and the Caribbean. He worked three years as director of golf at what is now Reserva Conchal in Costa Rica.
 Richard McColl
Richard McColl is a London born freelance journalist who has made his home in Latin America working as a Travel Guide, Expedition Leader and Social Projects Coordinator. He has traveled the length and breadth of this great continent hardly missing an inch and even reporting on the failed Scottish settlements in Suriname. Now living in Colombia he divides his time between his guesthouse in the Garciamarquian heartland of Mompos, the capital Bogota, and on the road in this country on the trail of another great story. His work has been featured in various worldwide publications and he has just launched his own travel agency focusing on tailor made tours through Colombia - www.ajicolombia.com
 Zora O'Neill
A New Yorker by way of New Mexico, Zora O'Neill is a food and travel writer who has lived abroad in Cairo and Amsterdam. She is the author of several guidebooks for Rough Guides and Moon Handbooks, including The Rough Guide to the Yucatán as well as Cancun & Cozumel Directions. She maintains the blog Roving Gastronome about her travels, and what she eats while she's at it.
 Paige R. Penland
Paige R. Penland was the lead author of the first Lonely Planet Nicaragua & El Salvador, and is the sole author of the upcoming Great Destinations Costa Rica, with Side Trips to Nicaragua and Panama.
 Insiya Rasiwala
Insiya Rasiwala teaches vinyasa yoga and writes on health, yoga, eco–travel and spas for publications such as the Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, Shared Vision, and Asia Spa and is a frequent commentator on the topics of health, wellness and sustainability for Canadian media such as Shaw, Global and Canwest.
She grew up in Bombay, India, her love of traveling encouraged from the age of two when she first crossed the Indian Ocean with her globetrotting parents.
While at university studying International Relations and French, Insiya worked for Newsweek's Paris bureau, honing her reporting skills, but after college she elected to explore the worlds of advertising and communication in Chicago and Bombay. Most recently she helped lead the global marketing for fast–growing yoga and athletic apparel company lululemon athletica in Vancouver, Canada, a city she now calls home.
She has traveled frequently to Costa Rica and Mexico to lead YES (yoga.ecology.surf) retreats with her partner and avidly seeks out eco–travel options wherever she happens to be. Insiya is currently completing a creative writing program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and also writes a blog on the sustainable yoga lifestyle: yoguestyle.blogspot.com.
 Diana Rowe
As a freelance writer for the past 10 years and active member of Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), Diana Rowe is accustomed to juggling several different tasks and publications while producing business and travel content, frequently covering her own backyard––the Denver metro area. Her other favorite destinations are Mexico, the Caribbean, and Las Vegas––and new discoveries of Panama and Chile. Over the years, Writing credits include Caribbean Escapes, Discovery Channel, TravelGolf, ESPN, and dozens of trade publications for the meetings and travel–agent industries.
 Sandra Scott
Sandra Scott has been traveling worldwide for over twenty years and writing about her travels since 1990. Scott and her husband John travel a total of seven months a year, half of which is international.
Scott's freelance work has appeared in all the in–flight magazines of Latin America, TWA's Ambassador, Changi Airport Magazine, Vista Magazine, Houseboat Magazine, and many other publications. Her other travel–related writing includes a weekly column in the Syracuse Post Standard, a syndicated monthly travel column for Senior Wire Service, plus regular columns for two Web sites: www.cocktailatlas.com and www.chocolateatlas.com. She is a frequent contributor to Copley News Service, Star Service, Trips and Journeys, L!ve Travel Guide (Web site and hard cover), 55 Plus, and several other travel magazines.
Sandra Scott is a member of IFWTWA (International Food, Wine, Travel Writers Association) and NATJA (North American Travel Journalist Association.) She is also the co–founder of the Mexico Historical Society, Mexico Point State Park, and Friends of Mexico Point Park.
 Timothy Scott
As the Editor of Luxury Latin America, Timothy Scott stays on top of the trends and news in the luxury travel industry. He has covered the luxury travel industry for over 10 years, writing for various trade magazines and has contributed to several upscale lifestyle magazines. He maintains a vacation home in Mexico and spends much of the year traveling through the Americas. He is the principle writer for the Luxury Latin America blog.
 Giannina A Smith
Giannina A. Smith is an Atlanta-based writer whose work has appeared in a variety of publications including Condé Nast Traveler magazine, Go magazine, Atlanta Sports and Fitness, South Florida CEO and Atlanta Business Chronicle. For the past three years she has been contracted by Condé Nast Traveler to work on the magazine's Gold List issue, reviewing the top hotels in the world. Throughout her career she has also interviewed various celebrity personalities, including Venus Williams, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta and ultra-marathoner Dean Karnazes.
Having lived in Brazil, Chile, Hawaii, and Australia before the age of 13, Giannina now continues her worldwide adventures and has extensive travel experience in Europe and South America. Fluent in Spanish, written and spoken, Giannina received her bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from the University of Florida, with a concentration in travel and tourism.
 Michael Sommers
Born in Austin, Texas, and raised in Toronto, Canada, Michael Sommers has lived and worked in Brazil as a journalist for over a decade, with his base being the country’s original, and very beautiful, capital of Salvador, Bahia. As a writer and photographer, over the years he has contributed travel articles to various publications including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, and The International Herald Tribune. He is the author of the guide books Moon Brazil (2nd ed.) and Moon Rio (1rst ed.), published by Avalon Publishing. You can read his ongoing dispatches from Brazil on his blog Thrill of Brazil.
 Lisa Wixon
Lisa Wixon is the award-winning author of Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban (HarperCollins/Rayo) and its Spanish-language version, Casi Rubia en la Isla del Deseo.
She's lived on three continents, sailed throughout the Caribbean, and traveled in Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America for both business and pleasure.
Wixon lives in New York.
 Sasha Arms
After graduating from university with a degree in Geography, Sasha became Managing Editor and Travel Editor of Futurespace Magazine. She traveled extensively across Europe and Latin America, as well as working with the iconic magazine designer Neville Brody.
Sasha is now a freelance writer based in London and has contributed to a number of noted travel publications, including the Lonely Planet Bluelist. Most recently Sasha undertook a post in Honduras, working as a journalist for the newspaper, Honduras This Week. She traveled across Honduras and Central America with the newspaper, travel writing and covering stories as diverse as the Latin American prison system, Congress and the state of the National Police.
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