sara_benson

After graduating from college in Chicago, Sara jumped on a plane to the West Coast with just one suitcase and $100 in her pocket. She landed in crazy San Francisco, and today makes her home in a little beach town on the central California coast. After three years of living in Japan, she followed her wanderlust around Asia for almost a year before returning to the USA, where she has worked as a teacher, a journalist and a national park ranger. She’s an all-seasons outdoors sports junkie too.

The author of 50 travel and non-fiction books, Sara’s writing has featured in national and international newspapers and magazines, as well as on popular websites Sara has written for Lonely Planet’s Peru, Japan, Las Vegas, California, Southwest USA, Canada and Hawaii guides, and contributed to Code Green, Middle of Nowhere and Don’t Let the World Pass You By! 52 Reasons to Have a Passport. She is also the author of Top Trails Maui: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone and Great Destinations: The Four Corners Region: Where Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico Meet.

Her top-three favorite countries (so far, that is) are Nepal, Morocco and Chile, but Iceland, Namibia and Vietnam are next on her must-see life list. Back in her own country, her favorite places to hang out are Maui, Las Vegas, Route 66, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and California’s hidden wine countries. And her most memorable travel experience? Falling off a camel at the edge of the Sahara Desert.

To hear more about Sara’s travel adventures, read her blog The Indie Traveler, visit her website at www.indietraveler.net and follow her on Twitter @indie_traveler.

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• Full Name Sara Benson
• Country United States
• Gender Female
• Website The Indie Traveler
• Languages English, Japanese, Spanish
• Favourite Places California, US Southwest, Las Vegas, Japan, Nepal, Morocco, Patagonia
• Interests Backpacking, indigenous cultures, wilderness, wildlife watching, retro Americana, road trips