After being hired sight unseen by a South Florida newspaper, Fort Lauderdale– based freelance travel writer and editor Lynne Helm arrived from the Midwest anticipating a few years of palm-fringed fun. More than a quarter century later (after covering the state for several newspapers, consumer magazines, and trade publications), she’s still enamored of Florida’s sun-drenched charms. Lynne updated the Everglades chapter.
Updating the Florida Keys and much of the Lower Gulf Coast is Miami native, Jill Martin . As a freelance writer, she has blogged more than 1,000 articles for the state’s tourism website, Visit Florida, and also writes for various travel sites and print magazines. She has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows as a Florida travel expert and is the creator of Sunshine Brain Games, a trivia card game all about Florida. She resides full time in the Redland and part time on Sanibel.
Galena Mosovich , who updated Fort Lauderdale, is known for covering cutting-edge developments and personalities in cocktail culture, gastronomy, travel, and visual art for top publications. In 2015, she spent time in Europe and Japan, bringing her back to South Florida with endless inspiration. She’s considered an international expert on cocktails and was selected to judge the 2014 Spirited Awards at Tales of the Cocktail as well as the World’s 50 Best Bars competition for Drinks International (2014–2016). Galena was raised in Coral Springs, in the northwest corner of Broward County, and she now lives in Miramar with her two dogs.
Paul Rubio ’s quest to discover the world has taken him to 107 countries and counting. Paul graduated from Harvard in 2002 with master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Economics, but in 2008 he gave into his passion and became a full-time travel writer. He’s won over a dozen national awards for his articles and guidebooks. The prolific writer is the travel editor of Palm Beach Illustrated, Naples Illustrated , and Weddings Illustrated and regularly contributes to Ultratravel US, Robb Report, Private Clubs , and the full family of Modern Luxury publications.