The Soul of a Great Traveler

James O'Reilly, publisher of Travelers' Tales, was born in Oxford, England, and raised in San Francisco. He's visited fifty countries and lived in four, along the way meditating with monks in Tibet, participating in West African voodoo rituals, rafting the Zambezi, and hanging out with nuns in Florence and penguins in Antarctica. He travels whenever he can with his wife and their three daughters. They live in Leavenworth, Washington and Palo Alto, California, where they also publish art games and books for children at Birdcage Press (birdcagepress.com). Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers' Tales, has visited more than fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the Arctic to equatorial rainforests, the Himalayas to the Dead Sea. In the 1980s he coauthored mystery serials for the San Francisco Examiner with James O'Reilly, and for thirty-one years wrote a syndicated newspaper column, World Travel Watch. Habegger regularly teaches travel writing at workshops and writers conferences, is a principal of the Prose Doctors (prosedoctors .com), and editor in chief of Triporati.com, a destination discovery site. He lives with his family on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Sean O'Reilly is editor-at-large for Travelers’ Tales. He is a former seminarian, stockbroker, and prison instructor who lives in Virginia with his wife and three of their six children. He's had a lifelong interest in philosophy and theology, and is the author of How to Manage Your Destructive Impulses with Cyber Kinetics and Authority. He is also CEO and founder of the Auriga Distribution Group, Johnny Upright, Fifth Access, and Redbrazil.com, a bookselling site.

Fishing with Larry
Tom Joseph
Bolivia



Red Lights and a Rose
Joel Carillet
Bangkok



The Bamenda Syndrome
David Torrey Peters
Cameroon



Ashes of San Miguel
Tawni Vee Waters
Mexico



The Memory Bird
Carolyn Kraus
Poland



Protected
Peter Wortsman
Germany



Into the Hills
Matthew Crompton
India



Flight Behavior
Amy Butcher
Nebraska



The Tea in Me
Bill Giebler
India



Oranges and Roses
Amy Gigi Alexander
Paris



Flamenco Form
Nancy Penrose
Spain



Ghost on Ice
Cameron McPherson Smith
Alaska



Discalced
Bruce Berger
Baja



We Wait for Spring, Moldova and Me
Kevin McCaughey
Moldova



Masha
Marcia DeSanctis
Moscow



Spirals: Memoir of a Celtic Soul
Erin Byrne
Ireland



Barren in the Andes
Laura Resau
Ecuador



Fish Trader Ray
Lisa Alpine
The Amazon



Remember This Night
Katherine Jamieson
Guyana



Love and Lies in Iran
Mario Kaiser
Iran



Castles in the Sky
Jennifer Baljko
Barcelona



Philomen and Baucis
Pamela Cordell Avis
France



The Empty Rocker
Kathleen Spivack
Amsterdam



The Train at Night
Gina Briefs-Elgin
Aboard Amtrak



Beneath the Rim
Michael Shapiro
Grand Canyon



Mysterious Fast Mumble
Bruce Berger
Baja



Storykeepers
Erin Byrne
Paris



Moving West, Writing East
Tom Miller
US/Mexico Border



From the Ashes
James Michael Dorsey
Cambodia



Inside the Tower
Keith Skinner
Monterey Peninsula



Deep Travel, Notre Dame
Erin Byrne
Paris



The Good Captain
Glenda Reed
The Pacific Ocean



The Train to Harare
Lance Mason
Botswana