Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!)

by Dave Fox

Overview

Most travel diaries fizzle. By day six of a big trip, people are struggling to recall what happened on days three, four, and five. They return home with mostly empty journals, or bland writing that fails to capture the full spirit of their journeys. Award-winning travel humorist Dave Fox comes to the rescue in this book that's both informative and irreverently funny. You'll learn to: -- Bring destinations to life with bold details. -- Splash those details quickly onto your pages so journaling doesn't gobble up your precious vacation time. -- Elude your "Inner Censor" and write with confidence. -- Weave together your "outer" and "inner" journeys, using unfamiliar places as a backdrop for self-discovery. Dave shares his favorite journaling techniques, shows how to find time to write in the middle of an exciting trip, and infuses it all with a generous dose of his off-the-wall humor. Whether your journeys are weekend road trips or excursions around the world, this book will help transform you into a travel journaling superhero!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592998876
Publisher:	Inkwater Press
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	410,742
File size:	413 KB

About the Author

Dave Fox started traveling the world at age seven, and he's been writing about his experiences ever since. Based in Seattle, Washington, he has lived in England, Norway, and Turkey, and visited more than 40 countries. His first book, Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad, won the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Book Proposal Contest in 2004. The second edition was published by Inkwater Press in 2008. Also in 2008, Inkwater Press published Fox's second book, Globejotting: How to Write Extraordinary Travel Journals (and still have time to enjoy your trip!).

Dave works as a freelance writer, speaker, and international tour guide. His travel journaling classes have been recommended in the Wall Street Journal. He offers entertaining and informative presentations on a variety of topics for businesses and other organizations. A former news anchor for Wisconsin Public Radio and a veteran Rick Steves tour guide, Fox has contributed to travel books by Rick Steves and Lonely Planet. His work has also appeared in travel magazines such as Transition Abroad, Trips, and Big World, and newspapers including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Oregonian, Dallas Morning News, and Wisconsin State Journal. He has appeared on the History Channel travel program, Weird U.S., and has been an opening speaker for Princess Martha Louise of Norway. In the spring of 2009, Fox will teach a series of travel writing classes onboard a three-continent, trans-Atlantic cruise.

For more information, please visit his humor website, davethefox.com, or his travel journaling website, traveljournaling.com.

What People are Saying About This

Rick Steves

"A vivid and thoughtfully written journal can be your most treasured souvenir. Dave Fox understands how journaling can help that great trip become a candy jar of memories that you can dip into for the rest of your life. And his book tells how."--(Rick Steves, PBS TV host and author of Europe Through the Back Door)