Moon Baja

A good part of Joe Cummings' childhood was spent in San Antonio, Texas, and he ate his first taco in the 1960s in one of the Mexican border towns his family visited frequently. Joe is now the author of Moon Handbooks to Baja, Cabo, Mexico, Mexico City, Northern Mexico, and Texas. As a freelance journalist Joe has also contributed to dozens of periodicals, including BBC Holidays, Geographical, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Outside Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, South China Morning Post, Via, and the Wall Street Journal. He has twice received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award, and twice been a finalist in London's Thomas Cook Guidebook of the Year awards. In 2001 he received Mexico's Pluma de Plata award for outstanding foreign journalism, for his work on Moon Handbooks Mexico City.