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Andrew Collins
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Freelance Travel and Food Writer and Editor, Freelance
Oregon City, New Hampshire
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Hi, my name is Andrew Collins. I live with my partner, Fernando Nocedal in Mexico City (along with two very friendly cats). We live across the street from Museo Frida Kahlo in Coyoacán, a quiet, historic neighborhood a few miles south of the city center. I also divide my time between Portland, Oregon (where I was based previously for 10 years), and a tiny town called Washington, in New Hampshire’s Lake Sunapee region. I’ve also lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Manhattan at various times over the years. Beyond moving among our home bases, we spend a lot of time traveling and road-tripping, mostly in Mexico, the United States, and Canada, but we try to get to a different continent at least once a year. Weird travel goal: To travel to every county in the United States. Currently, I’ve been to 2,387 out of 3,065 (including parishes in Louisiana and boroughs in Alaska) of them. You can track my progress here—and yeah, it looks like I’ll be spending a lot of the next few years traveling around the Upper Midwest if I’m ever to fulfill this dream. We’re avid hikers and also love kayaking, and other strong focuses include movies (usually on the indie or at least unconventional side), architecture, art, gardens, and every manner of eating establishment (although I’m arguably even more drawn by interesting beer, coffee, wine, and spirits—and the places that produce them—than I am by the food). After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1991, I landed a job as an editorial assistant for the long-running travel guidebook publisher. After a couple of years, and having been promoted to associate editor, I decided I’d rather be out seeing and writing about the world than seeing it through the windows of a Manhattan office tower. So, on a bit of a whim, I decided to quit my job and try my hand at freelancing. That was 1993, and I’m still happily working for myself. However, making a go of it was tough at first. Unable to afford rent, I gave up my apartment in Manhattan (I would live as a nomad, without a fixed address, for the next seven years). Realizing I needed to come up with a way to make a living, I pitched my former employer with a proposal to write the first LGBTQ travel guidebook produced by a mainstream guidebook publisher. They accepted my pitch, and over the next two years, I wrote Fodor’s Gay Guide to the USA, which earned a 1996 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers, and I followed this book with six miniature versions of Fodor’s gay guidebooks on Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Pacific Northwest, South Florida, New York City, and Amsterdam. Since that time, I’ve authored or edited hundreds of guidebooks, both for Fodor’s and Moon Travel Guides (for which I wrote guides to New Orleans, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). I still write about most of Oregon (including Portland, the Columbia Gorge, Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon, and the Oregon Coast) and several parts of Washington (including the Olympic Peninsula, San Juan Islands, the Cascades, the Yakima Valley Wine Country, and most of the I-5 corridor beyond Seattle) in the Fodor’s Pacific Northwest, Oregon, and Portland guidebooks; Santa Fe and Taos in Fodor’s In Focus Santa Fe; New Hampshire in Fodor’s Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire; about a dozen California, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, and Utah national parks in Fodor’s National Parks of the West; and Southwestern Utah, Salt Lake City, and the Ogden-to-Logan region north of Salt Lake City for Fodor’s Utah. And I recently finished writing the Condesa, Roma, Coyoacán, San Ángel, Greater Mexico City, and Experience chapters of Fodor’s Inside Mexico City.
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