About

Hit list:

• met the girl of my dreams and moved to Italy

• updated 7 travel guides to Italy for Northstar Travel Media

• wrote 250+ posts for EuropeUpClose.com

• moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2010 for wine, wilderness, and words

• 30+ stories in Northwest Travel & Life Magazine

• 1500+ articles while editor of Eater PDX

• restaurant critic for Willamette Week 

• one TEDx talk on how to write a book

• and moved back to my home state of Maine to live the good life inspired by Maine's back-to-the-land movement in December 2018