Inspiring Travel Writing from Joe Cummings
Joe Cummings, a native of New Orleans, has been writing about culture, politics and travel since his first job for The Asia Record in 1979. Since then he has written over 30 original guidebooks, phrasebooks and atlases for countries in Asia and North America, including a guidebook to Thailand which has sold over a million copies.
As a freelance journalist he has written for dozens of periodicals, including Ambassador, Bangkok Post, BBC Holidays, Conde Nast Traveler, Geographical, The Independent on Sunday, International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Outside, San Francisco Examiner, South China Morning Post and Wall Street Journal. His work has twice been honoured with the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award.
As a freelance journalist he has written for dozens of periodicals, including Ambassador, Bangkok Post, BBC Holidays, Conde Nast Traveler, Geographical, The Independent on Sunday, International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Outside, San Francisco Examiner, South China Morning Post and Wall Street Journal. His work has twice been honoured with the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award.
Articles by Joe Cummings
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Before You Die: Hkakabo Razi
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Joe Cummings
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Burma (Myanmar)
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other regions of Myanmar
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Hkakabo Razi
Hkakabo Razi. At the far north of Burma, the tallest mountain in SE Asia has been closed to foreigners since 1962. Joe Cummings
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Before You Die: Norway to Scotland by Boat
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Joe Cummings
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Norway
Norway to Scotland by boat. As soon as I heard this was a possibility, I wanted to climb aboard. Joe Cummings
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No Beach Too Far
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Joe Cummings
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Thailand
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Southern Thailand: The Gulf Coast
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Koh Phi Phi
"There's no way you can keep it out of Lonely Planet, and once that happens it's countdown to doomsday." So says one of the backpacking characters in The Beach, UK author Alex Garland's controversial novel set in Thailand. Published in 1997, the...
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A Return to the City
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Joe Cummings
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Mexico
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Central Mexico
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Mexico City
I recently returned from three weeks in North America’s highest and oldest capital- La Ciudad de México, La Capital, el Distrito Federal, or simply “De Efe” for short- researching Moon’s new Mexico City Handbook, and I...
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Before You Die: Tango in Buenos Aires.
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Joe Cummings
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Argentina
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Buenos Aires and the Pampas
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Buenos Aires
Tango lessons in Buenos Aires. By the time I finally do this, the tango will probably be out of fashion, but I'm sure it'll come around again. Joe Cummings
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South of Tijuana
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Joe Cummings
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Mexico
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Baja California & The Pacific Northwest
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Baja California
Before taking my first auto trip along the thousand-kilometer-long, two-lane blacktop known as La Carretera Transpeninsular Benito Juárez, I scaled a wall of guidebooks and travel literature on Baja - from the 1928 Mañanaland: Adventuring with...
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Hotel Where?
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Joe Cummings
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Mexico
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Baja California & The Pacific Northwest
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Todos Santos
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.As a frequent visitor to Todos Santos, Baja’s headquarters of hip, I often wondered about the story that Don Henley, singer and drummer for The Eagles - a country rock group from southern...
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Drifting Into Todos Santos
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Joe Cummings
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Mexico
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Baja California & The Pacific Northwest
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Baja California
I first heard about Todos Santos from Rebecca. She had a gypsy soul and made her living peddling words to glossy travel magazines, a perfect mating of vocation and avocation. She once spent nine months driving the coastlines of Mexico in a beat-up...