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About the Mavens


 
   Molyneaux at dinner (for two) on the Crystal Serenity off the
   coast of Scotland.
                                                                     Photo by Judi Dash
David Molyneaux
 is an award-winning writer, editor and lecturer who has been guiding his legions of readers through the intricacies and opportunities of U.S. and international travel for 25 years. From his first-hand reporting across the United States and in more than 80 countries on six continents, David offers his readers expertise in all areas of travel, especially cruises and golf

resorts. He
has sailed out of ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the South Pacific, reviewing the positives and negatives of dozens of ships.

David is president of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) Foundation,  which operates the distinguished Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. He is vice chairman of the SATW Editors Council, made up of travel editors and representatives from major North American newspapers, magazines, broadcasting and the Internet. For more than 24 years, David was Travel Editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.
David, editor of TravelMavens.net, writes a blog, The Travel Maven.


Judi Dash explains her camera gear to inquisitive passersby outside a sikh temple in Pushkar, India
Judi Dash
is an award-winning travel journalist in North American newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Known as the Gear & Gadget Guru, she is an expert on trip planning, packing and new travel products that she tests for her millions of readers. She has no business relationship with any manufacturers.
 
Dash has traveled the world, writing for magazines including Parade and National Geographic Traveler, and for newspapers including the Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kansas City Star and St. Petersburg Times.


   
   George at the isolated airport at Aitutaki, one of the Cook
   islands in the South Pacific, north of Rarotonga. Aitutaki has
   a population of about 2,000.
Don George
is a trusted and pioneering travel journalist who is editor of Don's Place, part of the Adventure Collection Website for planning adventure trips around the world. Don has visited more than 65 countries. He has been an editor at Lonely Planet Publications, the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle and at Salon.com. He appears regularly on CNN and NPR. Don has published seven books, including “Travel Writing,” “The Kindness of Strangers,” “By the Seat of My Pants,” and “Tales from Nowhere.”

Don is editor of an online magazine called RECCE: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler
“Recce” is an abbreviation of reconnaissance, a scouting trip undertaken to get to know an unexplored territory.