Lonely Planet's Best of Florida - Grand Format

Adam Karlin is a Lonely Planet author based out of wherever he happens to be. Born in Washington. DC and raised in the rural Maryland tidewater, he's been exploring the world and writing about it since he was 17. For him, it's a blessedly interesting way to live lite. Also, it's good fun. He just read two good quotes, so with thanks to Italy, ancient and modern : 'Tutto il mondo è paese' and 'Ambulare pro deo'.
If you ever meet Adam on the road, be sure to share a drink and a story. Kate Armstrong has spent much of her adult lite traveling and living around the world. A full-time freelance travel journalist, she has contributed to around 40 Lonely Planet guides and trade publications and is regularly published in Australian and worldwide publications. She is the author of several books and children's educational titles.
Atter a brief stint selling day-spa coupons door-to-door in South Florida, Ashley Harrell decided she'd rather be a writer. She went to journalism grad school, convinced a newspaper to hire her, and started covering wildlife, crime and tourism, sometimes all in the same story. Fueling her zest for storytelling and the unknown, she traveled widely and moved often, from a tiny NYC apartment to a vast California ranch to a jungle cabin in Costa Rica, where she started writing for Lonely Planet.
From there her travels became more exotic and farther flung, and she still laughs when paychecks arrive.