About: Sam

Website:

http://travel.latimes.com

Profile:

Sara Benson is an expert travel journalist with extensive experience in print and online media. She has bounced all over the world, having lived in New York City, Hawaii, the Midwest, Europe and Asia. She has written over two dozen guidebooks for Lonely Planet Publications, the world's largest independent travel publisher, and for Countryman Press. Her syndicated and feature travel articles have appeared in both national and international newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic: Adventure, the Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Vancouver Sun and London's Independent. When she's not helping friends plan their next West Coast weekend getaway, she's off wine tasting and playing along California's central coast, beach hopping in Hawaii or jungle trekking and photographing ancient temples in Asia.

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• Book now, pay later for your next airline tickets (21 Oct 2007)
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• Condé Nast poll: Maui is world’s best island (16 Oct 2007)
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