Born and raised in southern California, Joe Yogerst’s articles on travel, business, culture and sports have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, International Herald Tribune (Paris), Conde Nast Traveler, CNN Travel, USA Today, BBC Travel, TIME, Newsweek and Travel & Leisure and 32 National Geographic books. Land of Nine Dragons, his account of a modern-day journey through Vietnam, was named America’s Best Travel Book in the Lowell Thomas Awards competition. The Long Road South about his four-month journey along the Pan American Highway between Texas and Argentina was named one of America’s top travel books by the Society of American Travel Writers. His latest National Geographic book, 50 States, 5,000 Ideas, soared to No. 1 at Amazon Travel Books.
As a staff writer at MTM and Steven J. Cannell productions, he developed television movies and wrote episodes of TV shows like Two and the long-running Silk Stalkings mystery series. He has an ongoing relationship with Craig Anderson Production in Hollywood and Creative Street Entertainment in Indianapolis, developing action adventures and sci-fi series and reality shows for network and cable TV.