Want to Start a Career in Travel Writing?
Thinking about being a travel writer? It sounds like bliss: sipping pina coladas at your resort hotel while writing up the recommendations on the best things to do see and do on the island – what’s not to like? Everyone at one point or another has mentioned travel writing as their ‘top’ career choice, and you can’t blame them. Lifestyle design is an important part of everyday life now, ever since Tim Ferris wrote his New York Times bestseller and introduced the world to the “4 hour workweek” and lifestyle design.
Mei Jia Wu Tea Culture Village
Not too many cities deserve such a name as paradise on earth, but Hang Zhou in China does. Too many cities now in China, desperate with economic development, are losing their souls, but Hang Zhou is not. Why so? Nature blessing and human efforts are the answers. One is tea culture, Mei Jia Wu Longjing Tea and its culture village.
Three Gorges River Cruise
As there was a long weekend at the beginning of May for Labor Day in China, so we decided to go on another China vacation to go the Three Gorges Dam. The dam itself is one of Chinas most expansive undertakings, which is located in Yichang set to become the worlds largest hydro-electric power station, along the Yangtze River. Construction began in December of 1994 and it is not expected to be fully operational until 2011. While there are many benefits to the dam, such as flood control and clean power, it has also been a controversial project because the flooding of the reservoir has already displaced approximately 1.4 million people and submerged many cultural relics. The water wont reach its maximum level of 175m until the end of 2008.
Highway Musing
As a writer, the only thing that separates us from so-called normal people is that thin membrane called: the imagination. Our ability to imagine is our power source. We each have our respective muses, which can appear as people, places or things. Sports teams, actors, even animals can inspire us in ways that have nothing to do with logic.
Travel Writing, Good For The Soul, Good For The World
Travel is one of my true loves. I caught the travel bug when travel became a part of my career. My first overseas assignment was a week in Thailand. This trip can only be described by the word “whirlwind”. 13 hour days at the office, followed up by dinner engagements every night. I didn’t get to see Bangkok at all so I decided to take the following Monday off work and stay for the long weekend. Those three days changed my life. Suddenly I was hooked on seeing new places.
