Nancy Brown is a lover of all things travel-related.  She has combined her passion for travel with her professional writing career.

After graduating from Journalism school and working in public relations she has backpacked through Europe; sailed over Alcatraz in a Zeppelin, rode horseback through Contra Costa County, hot air ballooned in wine country, floated under the Golden Gate Bridge on a SuperLiner cruise ship and fly fished in Alaska.  She has traveled via Amtrak train,  lodge hopped in Alaskan float planes, helicoptered in Hawaii, motorcycled in Greece and boarded the wrong bus while visiting Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle.

Nancy writes a travel column, “What a Trip” for the Contra Costa Times Lamorinda Sun, a publication of Media News Group.  She is the Lodging Editor for Uptake.com and the on-line Travel Editor for Diablo magazine.  She also writes the “Traveler Making a Difference” column for Escapes magazine.

Horse lovers will find her on the Writing Horseback blog. She is a BootsnAll Insider for California and has contributed to InsideBayArea, Uptake.com and Write to Travel blogs, among others.  She is a member of Bay Area Travel Writers (BATW), BlogHer, Matador and Travelwriters.com.  She also owns a public relations consulting business.

Wendy Perrin of Conde Nast Traveler’s Perrin Post would probably agree that Nancy spends way too much time reading travel blogs.