Travel

The How-To Travel Guru

By Mary-Jayne McKay

July 2, 2007 / 6:41 AM EDT / CBS News

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Jim Gullo, our new How-to Travel Guru columnist, has traveled the world for twenty years as a freelance travel writer and book author. His assignments for publications like Saveur, Islands and Virtuoso Life have taken him to more than three dozen countries. Gullo has searched northern Thailand for kao soi noodles for Saveur; chronicled the feats of Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii's greatest athlete, for Sports Illustrated; played the golf courses of Scotland as a P.G. Wodehouse character for Islands; asked his butler to bring pizza and Yoohoos to his fine hotel suite for Virtuoso Life; and written about Microsoft millionaires, Mexican resorts and scuba-diving for Town & Country, Bon Appetit and Aqua, respectively. His seven published books include guidebooks to the Pacific Northwest, the autobiography of golfer Charlie Sifford, and books on southern history and Hillary Rodham Clinton for younger readers.

Gullo began his travel-writing career in 1987 when he lived in Hawaii and began to travel regularly to Micronesia and the South Pacific for articles in Continental Airlines' in-flight magazine. Moving to Seattle in 1991, he continued to travel and write as a contributing editor to Islands magazine, a columnist for Diversion magazine, and a regular contributor to Aqua, a magazine devoted to international scuba diving. He presently writes the cruise column for Virtuoso Life, travel coverage for Seattle Metropolitan, and is featured in Wingspan, the magazine of All Nippon Airways, as well as the Alaska and Horizon Airlines magazines.

He makes his home on an island in Puget Sound outside of Seattle, where he lives with his wife Kris, 7-year old son Joe, and an obedient dog named Louis. His older son Michael attends the University of Miami. You can see more of his work at www.jimgullo.com.