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Our Lisbon sights included the ever-visible Castelo de Sao Jorge (Castle of St. George) that overlooks the city from wherever you are. We explored the Baixa downtown section including Comercio Square, the beautiful Arch of Augusta, Rossio Square with its flowers, fountains, and Dona Maria National Theater in the background, & the adjacent Figueira Square. The Miradouro Viewpoint offered us an excellent vista over the city’s red-tiled roofs, cathedrals and bell towers, and the harbor.

The history of these ubiquitous tiles are nicely portrayed in Lisbon's Tile Museum (Museu Nacional Do Azulejo)—one of the city's top three tourism attractions. Housed in an atmospheric old Renaissance convent, complete with cloisters, we found gorgeous tiles ranging from the 15th century to the present day.

While we walked through Lisbon's streets we came across quiet little cobble stone squares, usually with a decorative fountain and shade trees. Entrancing, small green kiosks were everywhere. The locals sit here even in winter having a snack and sipping cappuccinos or their favorite alcoholic beverage.

Editorial: The Life of a Travel Writer

On dry land, I’ve been carted around on segways in Oregon, sputtering tuk-tuks in Thailand, rickety trishaws in Vietnam, diesel-spewing buses, rusty bicycles, military jeeps, a mustang sports racing car in Nebraska, huge world war II tanks in Europe, smooth-as-silk trains, bell-ringing trams in San Francisco and Lisbon, a luge sled in Queenstown, New Zealand, sporty dune buggies on Oregon sand dunes, and sat in the finest automobile ever produced, a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 500K Special Roadster worth $10 million!
Animal transport that has hauled me around includes elephant rides in Thailand, dog sledding in Alaska, a stagecoach in Tombstone, a camel at the Great Wall of China, and — I know this is a stretch — an enormous “alligator” float at the Lake Charles Mardi Gras Parade.

My water-borne transportation has, at various times been a historic schooner around the Puget Sound, a fishing boat in Alaska, cruise ships, tour boats, Jetboats on the Deschutes River, steamboats in Missouri, Alaska Marine Highway passenger ferries, a 146-foot long luxury boutique hotel barge along France’s Burgundy Canal, a historic 126-ft. schooner, a zodiac life raft, kayaks, stand-up paddle boards in Tennessee, a German World War II minesweeper on the Rhine, and a floating gold dredge!

And my aerial travel writing adventures have been by helicopter over the Oregon coast & an Alaskan glacier, small sightseeing aircraft, a World War II C-47 troop transport over Ann Arbor, Michigan, aerial trams in Alaska, and of course airline passenger planes.

You can read more about my adventures as a travel writer at this link

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How to Cover Your Travel Costs When Magazine Pay Varies So Much

Magazines seldom pay the writers’ travel expenses. So, how can we cover our travel costs when magazine pay varies so much?

Here are three distinctly different examples and real scenarios of press trips I’ve taken. In these examples, I’ve included the money I earned through my assignments, and how my travel expenses were covered.

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This story is about writing for boating magazines. In particular, it demonstrates how Chuck Warren used his knowledge and experience in the boating industry to get his articles published. He makes it look easy! 

It’s an inspirational read for anyone thinking about entering the competitive field of freelance magazine writing.

“My travel writing journey over the past two and a half years has been nothing short of incredible and I'm trying very hard to continue moving forward.

Here’s my story on how I made the transition from unpublished wannabe to regular freelance contributor . . .”

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Pitch Travel Write: Most Requested Links About the Craft of Travel Writing

As travel writers, we put words together to paint pictures of our destinations. Writing about a place we love seems like such an easy thing to do. From the readers perspective, we live a charmed life.    But, as you know, there’s much more to the travel writing craft: things behind the scenes that your reader doesn’t know about like . . .

• How to say the words in just the right way
• Sharing valuable information to catch their attention
• Knowing how to keep them engaged

There’s also a lot to learn about controlling your time and freeing yourself up from mundane tasks so that you can spend more time on the things you love to do – writing about travel.



This resource page includes information about topics that focus on your travel writing craft. How you can improve your writing and increase your productivity – and get those articles out to editors.

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June 18-21, 2022, Travel Writing & Photography Retreat
June 23-25, 2022, Marketing Master Class for Travel Writers

We've had lots of interest already. You can sign up for our no-obligation interest list for these workshops and receive our substantial early bird discounts when we open registration:

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Your next opportunity to attend these classes be in Charleston, South Carolina, June 2022. There are still a few open seats in these workshops, so sign up while we have space. Registration will open soon - in the meantime, get on our interest list.

Our travel writing & marketing workshops are highly informative and a blast, socially. Sign up for the interest list here

You can access the list of the top ten travel writing workshops from Travel Writers Exchange at the link below: Travel Writers Exchange workshop list: #1 Marketing Master Class

ONLINE Travel Writing & Marketing Master Class

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• If you’re a novice travel writer, or you haven’t had much luck selling your articles to print magazines, this Online Travel Writing & Marketing Workshop is for you.
• If you weren’t able to travel to our Live Master Class, here’s the opportunity to attend anyway - without any travel costs and at a substantially reduced cost!
• If you work a full-time job and can’t get time off to attend the live class – you can still attend on your own schedule after working hours.
• If you’ve wanted to attend our Live Marketing Master Class but can’t get your schedule to fit with the dates it’s offered – here’s your opportunity to attend at your own convenience.

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