Confessions of a Travel Writer: All Guts or All Glory?

How glamorous is the life of a travel writer? Is it really the dream job non-journalists tell me they believe it is? The Travel Channel aired a pilot for a series about what we do, and the press trips that facilitate it:

http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/interview-with-charles-runnette-confessions-of-a-travel-writer-20090810/

and my colleague Shannon Hurst Lane of The Traveling Mamas weighed in on the show:

http://www.shannonlane.com/confessions-of-a-travel-writer/

Shannon’s exactly right- there is no such thing as a “free lunch”.

BCB