Back to Global Conversations 2.06: Patricia Schultz, Author (Part 1 of 2)
What makes a good traveler? In the first of two episodes, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die’s Patricia Schultz talks with Melissa Biggs Bradley about her first travel epiphany, when she knew she was a nomad, why she started collecting places and why what happens along the way can be more exciting than the destination itself. Plus, the impact of Covid on our travel mindset and much more. (Part 1 of 2)
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For today’s conversation, we’re continuing with the special wisdom of travel writers. Our previous conversation was with Mary Morris, who has written five travel memoirs over the years. Today’s guest Patricia Schultz has been writing about travel for more than 40 years. But she’s best known for one book that covers practically the whole world, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. It’s now in its third edition with over 3 million copies in print.
Patricia knows the world as well as anyone, and she learned it largely on her own — one travel story, one chapter for a travel guide book, at a time. She started well before Google, when travel writers really had to put in their time on the ground to understand a place. And eventually, she became her own Google database of travel — no staff of researchers, no office, just her own endless interest in seeing what was out there, and often on her own.
