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, Editor in Chief of the new website about wacky travel, OffRamp101.com, grew up on his father's 52-foot sailboat during his teenage years. Cruising around Southeast Asia and the Pacific, he dodged skin cancer while lounging on a myriad of perfect beaches in Micronesia and Melanesia. In addition, Matthew grew up in Malibu watching his brother surf, and then as an adult authored the first gay...

A native New Englander, Erika Lloyd grew up by the ocean in Maine before eventually escaping those cold winters by moving west to attend the University of California, Santa Cruz, and spend time by the Pacific. A position at National Geographic took her to the slightly landlocked city of Washington, D.C. She loves to travel whenever possible, and has explored places including Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, Antigua and Barbuda, Yellowstone National Park, Death Valley National Park, St. Croix, Vancouver, and all over Maine and California.

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...

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...