A quick run-down of who am I, what I like, where I’ve been, and where I’m going or would like to go…
1. What do you do?
Freelance travel writer. I wrote The Unofficial Guide to Central Italy: Florence, Rome, Tuscany & Umbria and Frommer’s Irreverent Guide to Rome. I’ve also contributed to The Washington Post, Bell’Italia, TravelChannel.com, and other publications and web sites.
- What are you reading right now?
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra -
What’s in your CD player?
You Are the Quarry by Morrissey -
Last three places visited:
Paris; New York; Chapel Hill, NC -
Next three places you’ll visit:
Apalachicola, FL; New York; Bombay (Mumbai), India -
Dream destinations
Sicily, Tokyo, Havana, Rio, Cypress, Tunis, Giza, Barcelona, Moscow -
Where would you like to go again?
Fortaleza, Brazil; Santa Fe, NM; Rome (always); Corfu, Greece; Curaçao; Toronto; Berlin -
If you could afford to go back to grad school, what would you study?
Classics (Ancient Rome and Greece) -
Favorite authors/writers
Alain de Botton, Jostein Gaarder, Peter Robb, Taras Grescoe, Tony Perrottet, Jan Morris, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ross King, Waverley Root -
Obsessed with…
Magazines, cookbooks, yoga, tennis, Serge Gainsbourg, tomatoes, tropical fruit, getting out of town, and ANYTHING Italian.
And there you have it!