David G. Molyneaux, editor of TheTravelMavens and blogger as the Travel Maven, is an award-winning writer, editor, and lecturer who has been guiding his legions of readers around the world for more than 25 years.
David writes for newspapers and the Internet. He is cruise columnist for the Dallas Morning News and a regular contributor to the Miami Herald and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
His blog ranges from cruise ship reviews to golf resorts, from nature and cultural explorations to health and healing escapes (including spas), and family journeys of discovery and relaxation. He has visited most of the United States and more than 80 countries on six continents.
David, above, at dinner (for two) on the Crystal Serenity off the coast of Scotland. (Photo by Judi Dash)
David is president of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation, which oversees the distinguished Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. He is vice chairman of the SATW Editors Council, made up of travel editors and representatives from major North American newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and the Internet. For more than 24 years, David was Travel Editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Judi Dash is an award-winning travel journalist in North American newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Known as the Gear & Gadget Guru, she is an expert on trip planning, packing and new travel products that she tests for her millions of readers. She has no business relationship with any manufacturers.
Left, Judi Dash explains her camera gear to inquisitive passersby outside a sikh temple in Pushkar, India (Photo by David Molyneaux)
Dash has traveled the world, writing for magazines including Parade and National Geographic Traveler, and for newspapers including the Miami Herald, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kansas City Star and St. Petersburg Times.
See Dash's product reviews at Gear & Gadgets.
You will find some of his articles and pictures at TheTravelMavens.com Dave and his wife, Jan, have traveled the globe together since 1987 in search of magical and elusive tales and photographs. They have won a bounty of professional awards. Their words and pictures have appeared in nearly every major publication devoted to travel, among them National Geographic Traveler, Islands, Conde Nast Traveler, and the Los Angeles Times. Don George is a trusted and pioneering travel journalist who is editor of Don's Place, part of the Adventure Collection Website for planning adventure trips around the world. Don has visited more than 65 countries. Don George wins prize in 2009 Lowell Thomas Competition. Travel journalist Dave G. Houser is an award-winning photographer and writer who has traveled the world on assignment for newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Houser wins bronze as 2009 Travel Journalist of the Year.
Don has been an editor at Lonely Planet Publications, the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and at Salon.com. He appears regularly on CNN and NPR. Don has published seven books, including “Travel Writing,” “The Kindness of Strangers,” “By the Seat of My Pants,” and “Tales from Nowhere.”
Don is editor of an online magazine called RECCE: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler.
George at the isolated airport at Aitutaki, one of the Cook islands in the South Pacific, north of Rarotonga. Aitutaki has a population of about 2,000.
I guess this is the only way to get a message to you. I just read your column on SPECIALTY RESTAURANTS. We agree completely. Our first 3 cruises were all on Celebrity ( Constellation and Millenium), and the food in the maindining rooms were great, and the specialty dining rooms were superb, and well worth the extra cost.
We just returned from 10 day cruise on Oasis of the Seas to Panama Canal (round trip from Miami). We agree that the main dining room was just ok, but the Chops Grille and Portofino were excellent, and welll worth the extra cost. The maitre d told us that they lose money on every meal there, and we're sure that they do. We actually ate at Portofino for the Mystery Theater dinner. We really enjoyed the show ( which is a well kept secret), and the meal was superb.
By the way, you might be intersted to report that the "PANAMA CANAL CRUISE" did not go THRU the canal, as advertised. We had to take an extra excursion TO the observation deck at the canal, where we saw 2 ships go thru. Others paid much more for an 8-hour trip across Panama, and then back thru the canal. When we complained on the survey, they called, and refunded our tour cost. But they never told us before or since the cruise why they did not go THRU the Gaton Locks, as advertised.
Posted by: DAVID & JUDY ZALLES | February 27, 2010 at 01:59 PM
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