Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have our guest, author and travel writer, Mike Gerrard.

Mike is an expert on Greece, which he has visited every year for almost thirty years. Mike also has written about vineyards in Greece and New Zealand, brewery tours in Belgium and Britain, as well as restaurants in Paris.

I don't know how lucrative travel writing is but it sure is fun! I haven't written a lot of travel pieces and I usually don't set out with that particular market in mind. For the most part, the pieces I've sold have been the result of something I stumbled upon that piqued my interest while doing something else.

Keeping a travel journal is a simple task and worth its weight in gold. It is a given that you will forget funny little events as the years pass. I've lived and/or traveled in over 40 countries and forgotten more than I care to admit, which is how NomadJournals.com came into being. There is nothing worse than reminiscing with a friend and not remembering what the heck they are talking about. This need not be the case.