I'm still on vacation with this blog, and will probably not resume it. Thanks for your comments and best of luck to everyone out there.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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- Carl Parkes
- San Francisco
- Travel writing was my primary employment over the last 15 years, in which I have authored six guidebooks to Southeast Asia published by Moon Publications (now Avalon Travel) and National Geographic. Previously, I worked as a stockbroker at Dean Witter in San Francisco and traveled around the world. -- I was born into an Air Force family and spent my childhood in California, Nebraska, Alabama and Japan, where my love of Asia began. After graduation from UCSB, I traveled around Europe and returned to work in Hawaii, Lake Tahoe, Aspen, Salt Lake City, and finally, San Francisco, my current residence. -- I once made a 12-month journey across Asia, from Japan to Sri Lanka, then returned home to work as a stockbroker. I later shifted gears and plunged into the perilous world of travel writing, churning out five guidebooks for Moon Publications and a Thai guide for National Geographic -- I've lectured on a half-dozen cruise ships, and won two Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers.
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