Katherine Rodeghier has traveled to nearly 100 countries and cruised across the globe with stops in all seven continents. She’s had close encounters with penguins in Antarctica and tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, joined a King crab safari in Norway, bicycled along a canal on a barge cruise in France, cruised to Casablanca on a vintage sailing ship, and sipped spiced wine at Christmas markets on a cruise on the Danube. Her travel journalism career began in suburban Chicago writing and editing an award-winning newspaper travel section for the Daily Herald. She’s a long-standing member of the Society of American Travel Writers.