NEW & UPCOMING TITLES
Dan Eldridge
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Dan Eldrige was raised in a military family and lived in California, Wyoming, Nebraska and Texas before moving to Western Pennsylvania. During his junior year at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied journalism, Dan circumnavigated the world as a student aboard the SS Universe Explorer, a 617-foot-long floating campus that visited ten countries on four continents in 100 days.
After graduation, Dan moved back to Northern California before returning to Pittsburgh and launching Young Pioneers, a magazine about independent travel culture that was nominated for an Independent Press Award by Utne Reader. He has also worked as a contributing writer for dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites; his reporting has taken him to locations as remote as the Buddhist temples of Chiang Mai, and as close to home as the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna compound in West Virginia. Dan spent a year as a staff editor at Pittsburgh City Paper, where he covered news, culture and the arts, but has since returned to full-time freelancing, with an emphasis on travel writing.
Before creating a career in journalism, Dan held dozens of jobs in a handful of fields. He worked as a bicycle messenger in San Francisco, a bookseller in New York City, a barista in Seattle, a taxi driver in Pittsburgh, an English teacher in Istanbul, and a busboy in Dublin. He currently resides in Pittsburgh. You can learn more at www.youngpioneers.com.
Dan's favourite places: The departure lounge of any international airport, a capsule hotel anywhere in Japan, or a longtail taxi boat on the Chao Phraya River.
Dan's travel tip: In order to truly understand a country and its culture, spend some time living, working or volunteering there.
