Mattress Sniffers Only

lpSome people think writing travel guide books must be the greatest job in the world. Perhaps. I once had a conversation with Wayne Bernhardson who wrote for a long time for Lonely Planet - Argentina: Uruguay & Paraguay, etc. And over a beer he told me that if my idea of "great" was rooting around third world bathrooms and sniffing mattresses then I should go for it.


I never did, but still can't shake the notion that writing a guide book would be cool…hey, I'm not averse to a little mattress sniffing. Come on, EVERYBODY'S DOING IT! And so this little class caught my eye. The INSTITUTE FOR TRAVEL WRITING and PHOTOGRAPHY May 20-22, 2005. Taught by several travel book long-timers and under $400, seems like it could be a fun and educational thing to do.





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