Beach Travel Experts

Nathan Borchelt has been writing about travel for the last ten years for such publications as The Washington Post, Outside, and Backpacker, splitting his obsessions between skiing, cycling, backpacking, hiking, scuba diving, and almost anything else. He's dived Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Roátan, Bonaire, Grenada, and Grand Cayman; skied in Japan; hiked the game trails of South Africa's Imfolozi National Park; biked through...

Gary Chandler has lived, traveled, and worked in Latin America and the Caribbean for the last decade, co-authoring more than a dozen guidebooks to the region for Fodor's, Lonely Planet, and Moon Handbooks. Gary was born in Detroit, raised in a California ski town, and earned his bachelor's in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkley and a master's in journalism at Columbia University in New York City. His assignments have taken him...

Destined to be a travel writer, Matthew Link grew up on his father's 52-foot sailboat during his teenage years, cruising around Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Before that, Matthew grew up in Malibu watching his brother surf, and later lived on the Big Island of Hawaii for five years where he authored the first gay guidebook to Hawaii. Since then, he’s spent time in nearly 70 countries, including far-flung spots like Antarctica, Greenland,...

Christine Loomis has traveled across the U.S. and in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and the South Pacific with and without her children. Among her favorite family adventures: More than 30,000 miles by RV criss-crossing America for weeks at a time, and spending a month exploring France and Italy by train, boat, van, bicycle, and foot (with a self-drive boat in the canals of southern France being the...

Michael Luongo grew up near the Jersey Shore, so it's no surprise he'd be reviewing beaches for Away.com. From Rio to Punta del Este to beaches around the world, Michael has had a lot of sand between his toes while taking notes to bring readers the best information on oceanside enjoyment. Michael is based in New York City and travels more than half the year. His work has taken him to more than 80 countries and all 7 continents, Latin America and...

Hungry for adventure from a young age, Travis grew up racing downhill mountain bikes, running rivers, and climbing mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Eschewing college for the island life in his late teens, he set his sights on the tropical travel circuit and made his way around the world as a freelance scuba instructor. For five years he worked charter boats, taught scuba diving and lived the dream in tropical hotspots from Hawaii and Thailand...

Perhaps the vast emptiness of the wheat fields in Kansas, where Lacy grew up, cultivated her deep longing to see the world and experience how others live their life. Lacy followed up her childhood by somehow staying put long enough to craft a degree in journalism, focusing on both travel and photography. Her curiosity about the world has taken her everywhere from playing soccer with orphans in Romania, clinging onto the back of a motorbike taxi...

Liza Prado was working as a corporate attorney in San Francisco when she decided to take a leap of faith and try her hand at travel writing and photography instead. Five years later, she has co-authored eight guidebooks to destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. Enjoying the ride all the while, she's dived, hiked, paddled, and crocodile-spotted her way through assignments. Her photographs have been featured in...

Sarah White has more than seven years of publishing experience, five of which she spent with National Geographic magazine writing for both print and online media. Blame it on the photos; while working for National Geographic, Sarah developed a strong desire to travel, leading her to explore much of Western Europe. She now combines her passion for travel with her love of the written word. She has written for Smithsonian.com and...