For 30 years, Mark Orwoll was on the staff of Travel + Leisure, the leading travel magazine in America, where he held such senior positions as Managing Editor and International Editor. He has appeared on television as a travel expert more than 500 times, including segments on Today, Good Morning, America, CBS Morning News, the BBC, Fox News Channel, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC, where for many years he appeared every Friday for a “Getaway Day” segment on Power Lunch. Orwoll is currently a freelance writer, and has published his travel stories in Condé Nast Traveler, AARP.com, The Travel Channel, Robb Report, Town & Country, Porthole Cruise & Travel, and his hometown favorite, T+L. He is the author of e-Travel, one of the first books on how to plan your vacations online, and, more recently, John Wayne Speaks: The Ultimate John Wayne Quote Book (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2021), an Amazon Hot New Release. He was born and raised in California, but now makes his home in New York’s Lower Hudson Valley, where he lives with his wife, Kathy, and their scrappy bordoodle, Penny.