I am a travel journalist, novelist, writer.

Co-publisher of the award-winning green travel blog, Green Traveler Guides. Co-author of the award-winning green e-guide Green Traveler Guides Hawaii.

I was born in Ohio, schooled in New Jersey and New York, and live on a  houseboat in Sausalito, California. That is, when I’m not on the road in search of the world’s best green travel.

As a travel journalist, I’ve written for many magazines and newspapers. I’ve written travel guides for Fodor’s and Bantam Books.

As a regular kind of journalist, I once asked a man on his way to becoming one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted, “Tony, is it true you bomb people?”  I prevailed upon presidential aspirant and Congressman Dennis Kucinich to judge a pizza-eating contest. Kucinich, then a Cleveland city councilman, declared the winner to be a very hungry German Shepherd. (The dog also ate the pizza box.)

Oh, yeah. I’ve also worked as a radio newsman, a newspaper reporter, and edited magazines in Los Angeles, Detroit and Cleveland.