Travel Writing

As a travel writer, I’ve explored the ruins of Machu Picchu, rafted over a waterfall in New Zealand, and retraced the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic. I’m what you’d call an energetic fellow.

In 2013, I began writing a humorous travel news column called “What in the World?” for Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail and the Vancouver Sun.

My travel articles have appeared in more than 30 outlets, including:

• National Geographic
• The Washington Post
• The Globe and Mail
• Canadian Geographic
• Toronto Star
• AMA Insider

I’ve contributed to travel guidebooks such as:

• Fodor’s Vancouver & Victoria
• Frommer’s Far & Wide
• GPP Travel’s Vancouver CityGuide

At the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) Awards, I’ve won four gold medals, four silver medals, and four bronze medals. My story on Ufa, Russia took first place at the Travel Media Association of Canada (TMAC) awards.

I won a silver medal in the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation’s Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for an Easter Island story. I was a Western Magazine Awards finalist for a Westworld travel feature about pond hockey in Saskatchewan.

A longtime member of the TMAC British Columbia board, I am an active member of both NATJA and SATW.