AOL Travel just published two of my articles
The first article has attracted a bit of buzz: more than 1,800 Facebook likes and a tweet from Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer. Also, Louisville’s WHAS 840AM interviewed me about it yesterday:
Many new parents think that just because they’ve had kids, air travel is too difficult, best to avoid it or only fly on big holidays when there’s no other option. That doesn’t have to be true. Almost every flying strategy you had in your childless era, however, needs to be rethought—and likely blown up like a piece of abandoned luggage.
By the time she was 2 years old, my oldest daughter had visited 18 states and DC, including spots on both coasts. Mistakes were made. This article I wrote for AOL Travel provides tips on how to, well, I’ll let the title speak for itself:
The January 2013 issue of The Writer includes a few quotes from me in an article titled, “Writing that soars: In-flight magazines offer writers the world.” The article’s author, Melissa Hart, and I spoke a few months ago, talking about how I got into travel writing, how I started contributing to enRoute, and how I pitch story ideas.
The article doesn’t appear online, so if you want to read the piece, you’ll need to order a back issue—or call me up and I can narrate my quotes to you.
As part of its new digital content strategy, USA Today published a local guide to Louisville I wrote, along with a couple of photographs I snapped. The 3,500-word guide appears behind a walled garden for guests of Hilton Hotels (so I can’t include the text here, but you can select the following photo for a screenshot of the guide’s front page). It covers restaurants, entertainment and nightspots, exercise venues, shopping, a trendy neighborhood, museums, the hip scene, spots unique to Louisville and a tip on how to sound like a local. Since its initial publication, I’ve updated it once as well.
The guide appears as part of USA Today Travel Media Group’s The Point property, a “firrst-of-its kind, fully integrated, multi-platform travel media experience for the hospitality industry. The Point offers hotel guests a unique blend of world, national and local news; local guides and tools, including top picks from local insiders, and premium digital entertainment content. This unique digital guest amenity is available through our launch partner, Hilton Worldwide.”
“Hilton, USA TODAY give guests new content choices” by Barbara De Lollis in, yes, USA Today provides more details about the local guides:
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The Spring/Summer 2013 issue of Louisville Bride includes an article I wrote about one of my favorite vacation destinations:
Growing up in Massachusetts, my family vacationed on Nantucket a few times. Honestly, I wasn’t so keen on the island then, preferring to travel at a faster pace. In the last several years, however, I’ve returned twice and changed my stance. The first time my wife and I spent a weekend there with my parents at a bed and breakfast; a few years later, we returned for a week, this time with a child of our own, and rented a house with my folks. Twenty-five years or so after my first visits, I learned there’s something to be said for a week of relaxing. And eating.
No PR people to thank for their help this time, but I guess I should express my appreciation to my parents for picking up more than their fair share of the costs.
Photo: Courtesy Louisville Bride
A freelance writer, editor, and consultant, my work focuses on travel and culture. I've contributed to The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News, Air Canada's enRoute, BlackBook, AOL Travel, Gridskipper, Deadspin, and Budget Travel. I'm also the editor of Eater Louisville.
