Destined to be a travel writer, Matthew Link grew up on his father's 52-foot sailboat, cruising around Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Matt has spent time in more than 65 countries and Antarctica. He is Editor in Chief of the new website about wacky travel, OffRamp101.com, former Editorial Director of The Out Traveler magazine, and launched Sherman's Travel magazine as well.
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Liza Prado
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.
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Gary Chandler
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.
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Christine Loomis
Christine Loomis has authored a number of travel guidebooks and she writes for publications including Family Fun, AAAEncompass, Endless Vacation, Diversion, and Copley News Service, among others, is a former editor on staff at Parents and Family Life magazines, and former editor-in-chief of Scientific American's Explorations.
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Sarah White
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.
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Top Ten Girlfriend Getaways
Founder of women's travel website Chickable?, Maria Salvaggio picks her favorite types of trips for chicks and offers a specific destination for each.
Where the Walking Shark Lives outside
It's the antithesis of the bleached-out, overfished reefs that divers find around the world—a place where the sea is still bursting with life, and hope for the ocean endures. Pull on a tank in Indonesia's remote Raja Ampat and witness diving's final frontier.
Malibu Beach Inn, California
A boutique hotel so close to the Pacific that you can practically feel the sea foam spray across your face—without getting any unwanted salt into the spectacular West Coast cuisine or one of the voluminous local wines on offer.
Seafood Watch: The Western Seaboard
Oceana, an organization seeking to protect and restore the world's oceans, continues to profile the seafood you should—and shouldn't—eat by indexing the most common fish off the western coast of the United States.
Seafood Watch: The Eastern Seaboard
Oceana, an organization seeking to protect and restore the world’s oceans, offers information on the environmental impacts of eating various types of seafood.
Sharks: Myths and Realities
Every summer, the ominous display of a dorsal fin sends crowds scurrying for the shore—and newspaper headlines exploding with warnings. Find out why that’s the wrong way to act.
Deep Focus
Learn the basics of underwater photography and you expand the experience of scuba diving and snorkeling. Our ten tips will help keep things crystal clear.
The Move outside
Go deeper with champion freediver Tanya Streeter
Surfing outside
Get dialed for summer's coolest sport
Complete Gear Archives: Surfing
From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things surfing.
Adventure Island at Glover's Reef Slickrock Adventures
from $1050, 9 days
Lost in the Caribbean and forgotten by the world. No modern conveniences, no schedules, no problems. It sounds like a fantasy, but you can experience...
Belize Adventure Week Slickrock Adventures
from $2275, 8 days
This ever-popular, active vacation explores this fascinating country using a multisport format. This trend-setting itinerary is the culmination of...
Reef Resort in the Cayman Islands Reef Resort
from $264, 7 days
Simply Relaxation - Located on Grand Cayman Island's east end, away from the crowds, The Reef is simply about relaxation - on a Cayman island beach and in comfortable Cayman island accommodation.
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Ultimate Belize Adventure Island Expeditions
from $2299, 10 days
Sea kayak, snorkel, dive, windsurf, explore Mayan ruins and ceremonial caves, and descend a tropical river.
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Photo credits: Tulum, Mexico: Joe Sohm/Digital Vision/Getty; Jolly Beach, Antigua: courtesy, Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Tourism; Key West, Florida: courtesy, Key West Tourism; Costa Rica: Corel; Manhatten Beach, California: Photodisc
