I am a Canadian travel journalist, editor, retired educator, and a former marketing manager at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. These various “incarnations” have given me important public relations, literary, and transferrable skills.

I have served on the Board of Directors of the Travel Media Association of Canada, and am currently also a member of: the World Federation of Journalists and Travel Writers; the North American Travel Journalists Association; The North American Association of Travel & Lifestyle Writers; The International Ecotourism Society; The Ethical Traveler Association; and The International Travel Writers Alliance.

I produce conceptual, literate, in-depth, and content-rich multimedia narratives that explore the universal layers of meaning inherent in travel.

My principal editorial and research assistant is my partner/spouse Dianne, an historian who specializes in social and art history, and who is also a retired educator.

The fact that I am now “authorized and commissioned to serve as an Ambassador of Good Will” for the State of Arkansas, USA is an indication of the value that destinations ascribe to my work.

I am also a member of The Travel Educators group.

You can also see my online travel videos by clicking here.

And finally, you can visit my Facebook and Twitter pages by clicking on the preceding links.

Why I believe that travel is a philosophical pursuit.

My fundamental philosophy in terms of the global travel and tourism industry is summed up best in the timeless words of the poet John Donne.

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man

is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as

well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

own were; any man’s death diminishes me,

because I am involved in mankind.

And therefore never send to know for whom

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."