2026 February Featured Journalist of the Month: Lisa Evans
Lisa Evans is a freelance travel journalist, photographer, podcaster, and published author. Shehas always enjoyed the outdoors and nature and often includes them in her writing andphotography. History, culture, and music are other passions – every place has a story to tell ifonly you find it. These loves push her to author stories to instill […]
2026 February Featured Journalist of the Month: Craig Benson
Craig is a freelance travel and outdoor writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been traveling and outdoor adventuring for most of my life. His father was an airline pilot, and Craig had the chance to travel the world from a very young age. He is particularly fond of writing about travels […]
2025 December Featured Journalist of the Month: Mike Fisher
Mike met a lot of wonderful people during fetchingly weird circumstances in many places, some dauntingly out of the way, others easily reached, and a few happily stumbled upon as if they were invisible breadcrumbs set out just for him, marking the way forward. His latest assignment was an expeditionary cruise to the Great Bear […]
2025 December Featured Journalist of the Month: Adrienne Cohen
Adrienne was trained as a journalist and worked professionally in Europe as a public information officer for the U.S. European Command and later as the editor of a Dallas-area suburban daily. She then segued into other ventures, including a 15-year stint as owner of a custom homebuilding company in Santa Fe, NM. Then, for a […]
2025 November Featured Journalist of the Month: Cindy Ladage
Cindy is a farmer’s wife with three grown children, two grandchildren. She loves to write about off the beaten track items and agricultural preservation. What got you into travel journalism? I got into travel journalism because when I find a place that I love, I want to share it with others. Especially after retiring from […]
2025 November Featured Journalist of the Month: Randy Sharman
Randy has managed to combine 30 years of radio broadcasting experience with his travel knowledge, which mostly comes from working in the cruise line industry for 3 years. That experience has taken him to both coastlines of North America, Alaska and Hawaii to Mexico and the Caribbean and Central and South America. Randy was also […]
2025 October Featured Journalist of the Month: Karen LeBlanc
Karen LeBlanc is an award-winning travel journalist and storyteller, honored with the 2025 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award, two Telly Awards, and multiple NATJA Awards for The Design Tourist travel show. As host, producer, and writer, she takes viewers beyond the guidebooks to uncover the culture, craft, cuisine, and creativity that shape the world’s […]
2025 October Featured Journalist of the Month: Francisco Javier Sanchez
With a background in environmental sustainability, outdoor recreation and social justice, Francisco Javier Sanchez is a photographer, writer and content creator who is passionate about the interrelationship between gastronomy, tourism and heritage. He studied at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala and the University of Winnipeg. When not producing editorial content for leading print […]
2025 September Featured Journalist of the Month: Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan is a full-time travel writer based in Dallas, Texas. He was born and raised in the UK, but moved over to the US in 2016 after marrying his American wife. He is a former British Travel Writer of the Year (2015) and now contributes to myriad titles on both sides of the Atlantic, including […]
2025 September Featured Journalist of the Month: Heather Trimm
A self-proclaimed “Southern hybrid” due to her Alabama roots and her time residing in Southern California, Heather is a multi-award-winning travel journalist. After repeatedly being asked for travel information by others, she created Trimm Travels in 2016. In addition to her world travels across 6 continents, she enjoys rediscovering her home state of Alabama through the unique […]