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Life As A Travel Writer

Kathleen Peddicord by Kathleen Peddicord
Dec 08, 2008
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I have been a travel writer, editor, and publisher for more than 24 years.

But I wasn’t always a travel writer. For 10 months, straight out of college, I was a computer tech writer.

It was a short-lived career, for I realized quickly that computer tech writing came with little upside for fun.

Travel writing, on the other hand, carries unlimited upside for fun, adventure, and, of course, travel.

If you have any wanderlust in your soul…and if you like to tell stories…travel writing can seem like a dream come true. I’ve been all over the world as a travel writer…from Uruguay to Hong Kong…from the Cayman Islands to Macau…from Madeira in the Med to China, the British Isles, Mexico…

And much of my travel, especially in the beginning, has been as someone’s guest–a government ministry of tourism, for example, or a PR agency for a cruise line.

My husband and I enjoyed a two-week, all-expenses-paid cruise, for example, from the coast of Spain to Gibraltar and the north coast of Africa…including several starry, sultry nights in Tangiers and Casablanca…

I’ve also cruised the Caribbean and the Yucatan coast of Mexico…I’ve been the VIP guest of hoteliers around the world from the Ritz in London to the Clifton Inn at Monticello Charlottesville, Virginia (a personal favorite). I’ve dined with the restaurateur’s compliments from Manhattan to the Latin Quarter…

Not only does travel writing allow you to travel more, but it also adds new dimensions to your travel. It can bring a financial element to your wanderings, of course, for you can, indeed, make a good living as a travel writer, but it does more than that.

Traveling as a travel writer helps to focus your attention. You pay more attention. You notice more. You ask more questions, so you learn more. Your travel experience is enriched. You get more out of every trip you take, because you’re able to penetrate quickly the tourist shell of a place. For you are not a tourist.

With your travel writer credentials, you gain access to places regular travelers can’t go. You receive invitations typical tourists never hear about.

The truth is, I didn’t realize I was landing a gig as a travel writer when I went to work for Agora Publishing nearly a quarter-century ago. I was young and eager for a change, so I jumped at a chance that turned out to be the most fortunate accident of my career…an accident that, literally, put the whole world within my reach.

I addressed a group of 35 aspiring travel writers a few nights ago here in Panama City. How do you become a published, paid, professional travel writer, they wanted to know.

First, like anything in life, I explained, you decide it’s something you want. You focus your sights and make some commitment.

Then you start writing. You can sit down at a laptop all on your own and bash out a story about your recent South American adventure, for example. And, if you keep at it and aren’t in any hurry to see your byline in print, maybe, eventually, you’ll be published.

But here’s a better idea: Get in touch with the group that put on the Lucrative Traveler conference here in Panama this past weekend. In addition to these writing seminars around the world, they also produce The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program, a self-study guide put together by one of the best travel writers I’ve had the pleasure to know, Jennifer Stevens.

Years ago, Jen worked for me. She and I sat together, in the same office, side-by-side, editing copy and mentoring up-and-coming travel writers. Jen has packaged all her years of writing and editing experience into a program that shares techniques and secrets for getting your travel writing published.

Maybe you want only to write for yourself…to keep a travel journal as you move around the world.

Great.

But if you’d like to write for a wider audience and enjoy the benefits, advantages, perks, and upsides that can come with the travel writing life, this is the best way I know to get started.

Kathleen Peddicord

 

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Kathleen Peddicord has covered the live, retire, and do business overseas beat for more than 30 years and is considered the world's foremost authority on these subjects. She has traveled to more than 75 countries, invested in real estate in 21, established businesses in 7, renovated historic properties in 6, and educated her children in 4.

Kathleen has moved children, staff, enterprises, household goods, and pets across three continents, from the East Coast of the United States to Waterford, Ireland... then to Paris, France... next to Panama City, where she has based her Live and Invest Overseas business. Most recently, Kathleen and her husband Lief Simon are dividing their time between Panama and Paris.

Kathleen was a partner with Agora Publishing’s International Living group for 23 years. In that capacity, she opened her first office overseas, in Waterford, Ireland, where she managed a staff of up to 30 employees for more than 10 years. Kathleen also opened, staffed, and operated International Living publishing and real estate marketing offices in Panama City, Panama; Granada, Nicaragua; Roatan, Honduras; San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Quito, Ecuador; and Paris, France.

Kathleen moved on from her role with Agora in 2007 and launched her Live and Invest Overseas group in 2008. In the years since, she has built Live and Invest Overseas into a successful, recognized, and respected multi-million-dollar business that employs a staff of 35 in Panama City and dozens of writers and other resources around the world.

Kathleen has been quoted by The New York Times, Money magazine, MSNBC, Yahoo Finance, the AARP, and beyond. She has appeared often on radio and television (including Bloomberg and CNBC) and speaks regularly on topics to do with living, retiring, investing, and doing business around the world.

In addition to her own daily e-letter, the Overseas Opportunity Letter, with a circulation of more than 300,000 readers, Kathleen writes regularly for U.S. News & World Report and Forbes.

Her newest book, "How to Retire Overseas: Everything You Need to Know to Live Well (for Less) Abroad," published by Penguin Random House, is the culmination of decades of personal experience living and investing around the world.

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