I'm a Florida native whose itchy feet have paused
in Albany and St. Simons Island, GA; Newport, RI; Bremerton, Tracyton, Seattle and Kirkland, WA; and Izmir and Sinop, Turkey.
Sand in my shoes from Atlantic Beach insured an
eventual return to Jacksonville, Florida, but the itch continues.
Turns out I wasn't the female Picasso so expression turned to
words which were much better at relaying what it's like to hold down a sports car's canvas top during a howling snowstorm
on the Jersey Turnpike...
... Or what to do when
my Turkish neighbors thought I was giving them the evil eye...
... Having a blown-out knee tended by an Iranian physician in a Norwegian emergency room who turned out to be a graduate
of the University of Florida and the cousin of a good friend...
... Then there was the challenge from a bull sea lion in the Galapagos Islands.
Backing into travel writing
was inevitable and I've been there ever since, in health and in pain - which inspired the Travel
on the Level blog, because when you hurt, flat is where it's at.
Along the way, professional experience includes 20 years as humor
and society columnist, travel writer/photographer, food, film, visual and theater arts critic and senior feature writer for
The Florida Times-Union * Editor, Folio Weekly Magazine * Partner, The A Team Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations
Agency * Novelist, New American Library * Freelance writer/photographer.
Member, Society of American Travel Writers.
