Born and raised in Colorado, Eric Peterson started traveling as a newborn child on his way back from the hospital. Numerous family road trips ensued, often with comedic effect.

Eric started writing when he was four, covering such stories as an anthropomorphic hammer fighting similarly humanoid nails and a bipedal polka-dotted gator-like creature named Erg.

He first got paid to write in his early twenties when he landed a freelance gig on a Frommer's book. That was 1995. As of 2010, Eric has written dozens of travel guides, mostly Frommer's titles, as well as his own Ramble Guides series of books: Ramble: A Field Guide to the U.S.A. (2006), Ramble Colorado (2008), Ramble California (2009), and Ramble Texas (2010).

Eric has also written for numerous magazines and newspapers during his career, including the Denver Post, Westword, the New York Daily News, United Hemispheres, Delta Sky, ColoradoBiz, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, and Nintendo Power. Check out www.rambleguides.com for more of all things Eric Peterson.

Stephen Keeling (b.1970) grew up in England and graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1992 with a degree in history. After working as a business reporter in Riga, Latvia, and a year organizing exhibitions in Vietnam and Myanmar for an eccentric Chinese millionaire, he joined a Hong Kong-based financial news provider in 1995, working his way up to Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief. After stints in Singapore and Shanghai, he moved to Taipei, Taiwan in 2003 where he wrote and researched the first Rough Guide to Taiwan. In 2006, after 12 years in Asia, he moved to New York City. Since then he has authored numerous Frommer's books and Rough Guides, in addition to writing for Google, Zagat, Dorling Kindersley, the Independent, Budget Travel and other publications.

Stephen Brewer is an editor and writer who has worked in magazines, books, and corporate communications for more than two decades. He has been a senior editor at Geo and Connoiseur magazines, and a contributing editor to Fitness, Home PC, Longevity, and New Choices. He has written for many other national magazines, including American Health, Better Homes and Gardens, Esquire, Family PC, and Good Housekeeping. In addition, he frequently writes about European destinations for Fodor's, Frommer's, and Berlitz travel series. He has written guides to Turkey, Sicily, and Tuscany for Berlitz Pocket Guides and has updated more than 50 other existing titles in the line.

A former arts administrator who handled funding for literature, theater, dance, and the visual arts, Patricia Harris has written about travel, food, art, and popular culture since she stopped going to other people's offices in the 1990s. She is co-author with David Lyon of more than thirty books that range from travel guides to one volume that plumbs the symbolism and semiotics of food. She is also the sole author (and photographer) of “100 Places in Spain Every Woman Should Go.” In addition to books, she and David Lyon travel the world--and their home region of New England, for that matter--writing for magazines, newspapers, and web sites about interesting places and people and good things to eat. Although she shares the same name, she has never been the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and knows nothing about teaching children how to write software. She and David Lyon live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and make their online home at www.HungryTravelers.com.

A former commercial fisherman, line cook, and adjunct university professor, David Lyon has written about travel, food, art, and popular culture since he decided in the 1980s that he could no longer stand going into an office. He is the co-author with Patricia Harris of more than thirty books that range from travel guides to one volume that plumbs the symbolism and semiotics of food. In addition to books, he and Patricia Harris travel the world--and their home region of New England, for that matter--writing for magazines, newspapers, and web sites about interesting places and people and good things to eat. He is in no way associated with other authors named 'David Lyon" who specialize in national security, maritime history, and 18th century English lit. Patricia Harris and David Lyon live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and make their online home at www.HungryTravelers.com.

Beth Reiber's career as a freelance travel writer has spanned more than three decades and has included four years living in Germany and three years in Japan. Over the years she has written more than a half-dozen guide books, two travel apps (Hong Kong Explorations and Branson and Beyond Traveler) and many articles that have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online. Since 2009 she has been a VISIT JAPAN Ambassador, an honorary title awarded by the Japanese government for her contributions in fostering tourism in Japan, and in 2011 she won the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award for fiction. She resides in Lawrence KS in an 1890s house that keeps her plenty busy and enjoys hanging out with friends and family, gardening, and keeping peace between her dog, cat and chickens. Everyone always asks her what's the favorite place she's been to, to which she always replies, "The place I haven't been to yet."

Claire Boobbyer is a travel writer, photographer, and Cuba travel expert.

Claire writes about Cuba for the international press. Her features have appeared in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, Guardian, National Geographic Traveller Magazine, Independent, and more.

She has written and updated guides to Cuba for Frommer's, Michelin, Time Out, Dorling Kindersley, Rough Guide, the AA, Thomas Cook, and Footprint. She is the author of Frommer's EasyGuide to Cuba, and author of the new Havana Pocket Precincts (May 2020).

Claire also writes travel features about Laos, Vietnam, Guatemala, and Bolivia in particular.

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Pauline Frommer is an award winning travel journalist, editor, and talk show host. Her guidebook to her hometown of New York City was named "Best Guidebook of the Year" by the North American Travel Journalists Association. Her podcast "The Frommer's Travel Show" was named one of the 13 best for travel by the New York Times. She is Co-President, with her father, founder Arthur Frommer, of Frommer Media, LLC, the company the publishes the Frommer's guidebooks and Frommers.com.

Jason Cochran, author of the award-winning book "Here Lies America," has been a travel authority and consumer reporter for nearly 25 years, starting in 1998 when, on a two-year round-the-world backpacking trip, he created one of the first regular travel blogs in the industry. He's been a regular writer for publications including Travel + Leisure, the New York Post, USA Today, and The New York Times, Scanorama (Sweden), and he has been on staff at Entertainment Weekly, Budget Travel, and AOL Travel (as Executive Editor). He devised questions for the first American prime-time season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (ABC) and produced and hosted "AfterShark," the post-show for Mark Burnett's "Shark Tank" (ABC). He has appeared as a commentator on, among other programs, CBS This Morning, The Early Show (CBS), BBC World, Good Morning America, CNN, and the CBC, and as a video host on AOL. He is an alumnus of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and New York University's Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program. Jason has twice won Guide Book of the Year in the Society of American Travel Writers' Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, is currently Editor-in-Chief of Frommers.com and for half a decade served as co-host of the weekly Frommer Travel Show on WABC, broadcast out of New York City.

Kim Knox Beckius is a Connecticut-based travel writer and photographer and Yankee Magazine contributing editor whose passion for New England inspires everything she does, whether it's riding a giant, inflatable lobster in her wedding gown; naming her daughter so she shares initials with L.L. Bean; or sending free fall leaves in the mail to autumn lovers around the world. For more than 20 years, she has shared New England stories, offered candid reviews, and provided lively commentary on events in the Northeast as New England Travel Expert for TripSavvy (formerly About.com). Beckius has authored six books on travel in New England and New York State. She also writes frequently about weddings and is the author of "The Everything Outdoor Wedding Book." Connect with Kim at: EverythingNewEngland.com.

Edie Jarolim earned a Ph.D. in English literature from New York University; edited guidebooks at Frommer's and Fodor's in New York and Rough Guides in London; published myriad travel articles and three travel guides (Frommer's San Antonio and Austin; The Complete Idiot's Travel Guide to Mexico's Beach Resorts; Arizona for Dummies); and generally led a respectable but dogless life until 2004, when she began palling around with terriers -- specifically, one small terrier mix named Frankie.

Cluelessness about dogs in general and Frankie in particular inspired her to begin reading up on all things canine and, eventually, to write AM I BORING MY DOG: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew (Alpha/Penguin, 2009). She created WillMyDogHateMe.com to publicize the book, but the blog took on a life of its own.

The discovery that her great uncle shared a space with and sold meat to Sigmund Freud in Vienna led her to create another blog, FreudsButcher.com.

But there was this memoir on her back burner, covering her 25 years as a guidebook editor for some of the largest companies in the business and, then, as a Tucson-based freelance writer. It was published in October 2016 as GETTING NAKED FOR MONEY: An Accidental Travel Writer Reveals All.

The much-beloved Frankie will never be forgotten, but he wasn't much of a traveler. Edie's new dog, Madeleine, is far more outgoing and she's getting restless. Subscribe to www.ediejarolim.com to find out about their latest adventures -- and more.