Emily Matchar

A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Emily first caught Relapsing Travel Fever during a high school semester abroad in Argentina. She studied English and Spanish at Harvard University, but the most important part of her education happened during summers in Mexico and Nicaragua researching for the college's Let's Go series of travel guides. Upon graduation, she hightailed it back down South to spend the next three years keeping tabs on local government as a reporter with Raleigh's The News & Observer. Office life, however, did not agree with her, and she was soon off gallivanting around the globe for Lonely Planet.