A couple of news items regarding my latest book, Moon Belize, 7th Edition: Moon Belize is up for Planeta.com’s 2007 Book of the Year Award in the “Best Place-Based Guidebook” category. Visit Planeta.com (an excellent sustainable tourism resource), and if you’ve had a chance to check out my book and the other nominees, go ahead and [...]

Last year, Tay and I met Peace Corps Volunteer Carl “Ka” Allen in Northern Ghana, in the village of Nakpanduri where Carl was living and where Tay and I were guests of Chief David Kansuk Laari. It was a classic encounter in the Chief’s “palace,” where we watched World Cup soccer and drank beer [...]

Moon was recently selected as Booklist’s Best Travel Series of the Year. I am an author for Moon. These are my books. The judges said: “Moon guides these days have such an easy feel in the hand: they open well, and the pages are just the right size, with lots of information presented in uncrowded fashion. [...]

Joshua Berman, freelance writer, trip leader, and co-author of Moon Handbooks Nicaragua, answered your questions on Nicaragua. And it was good. Here’s the transcript from my Nica chat today. There were many excellent questions. Thank you for writing in! For more on Nicaragua, don’t forget about my other website: GoToNicaragua.com

I am featured on BudgetTravel.com this week as a Nicaragua Trip Coach. Submit your questions now — then from noon to 1 p.m., Eastern Time on Tuesday, October 16, I’ll be live-chatting and answering readers’ questions. The event is featured in Budget Travel’s weekly newsletter which goes out to 800,000 subscribers. In other Nica news, [...]