Ken Mink is a retired journalist with more than 48 years experience working on newspapers and magazines. He has won more than a dozen state and national writing awards. He lives in Maryville, Tn., near Knoxville. He is also the author of 23 books, all available on Amazon and other web sites. His wife, Emilia, is also an accredited travel writer. He is the editor of the online travel magazine The Travelling Adventurer (www.travellingadventurer.com) and is a member of the Golf Travel Writers of America (GWTA).
My interest is in the visual arts. I have produced nine Jane's Smart Art Guides audio guide titles, for historic art sites in Italy & Antwerp (available on Audible.com). Currently I am the founding President of ArtGeek.art, an interactive website that provides art exhibition listings at more than 1000 museums across the USA. Our intention is for ArtGeek.art to become the culture-travel planning website of choice for art-enthusiasts.
Jane Wilson is a freelance travel and wellness writer. And reflecting her specialist interest and passion for wellness tourism, she is the founder of The Wellness Traveller (www.thewellnesstraveller.co.uk)
Jane’s extensive travels have provided a rich source for her inspiration, personal interpretation and specialist knowledge. Her features have ranged from mindful travel in Laos, healthy-ageing in Austria, indigenous therapies of the Malayan culture, ancient treatments in India to quaint English garden spas and, of course, nature’s own cures. With wellness at the heart of her travel writing, colouring her journeys along the way, she writes reviews (hotels and spas, therapies and treatments) and travel features with a unique nod to health and wellbeing.
R. Daniel Foster is an award-winning writer, photographer, and visual artist. His publication credits include the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Details, Cosmopolitan, Smithsonian’s Air & Space, Harvard Business Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Hartford Courant, and The Baltimore Sun, among other outlets. He has also written and announced features for National Public Radio and Marketplace Radio. His visual-based work (art video, documentary, theatrical projection design) has been featured by PBS, the LA Opera, Walker Art Center and the Hammer Museum. A skilled storyteller who often combines word and image, Foster is known for conveying meaning and message in unforgettable ways.
Instead of venturing off 'around the world' in a single trip, I held an idea to formulate something much bigger that would ultimately require years to complete. An ambitious challenge to circumnavigate our planet in ten separate journeys, heading East to West, with each succeeding journey an overlap to the last one (if logically viable). Taking from a year upwards with no real plan in between the start and finishing points. In March of this year, I returned back to the UK due to restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, from what was the ninth segment. When conditions are safe and favourable I would like to continue this quest which first started in the Summer of 1997. Seeing the world and its many faces have gradually guided me down a road where writing has taken a greater influence. I currently write for B-C-ing-U! and will post travel articles here as well.
