“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” -Mark Twain

 

Ret Talbot is a professional writer, who, when not traveling, splits his time between Laguna Beach, California and Merna, Wyoming (near Jackson Hole). This site is about some of his travel adventures in the service of telling a good story.

Assignment: Belize

Last winter, Ret contracted with Reaktion Books (London) to write Coral for the award-winning Animal series. In preparation for that book, and to mirror his winter 2010 trip to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Ret traveled to Belize in July, where he was the guest of the Smithsonian Insitutution's Carrie Bow Cay Field Station on the Meso-American Barrier Reef. [More]

Assignment: Papua New Guinea

In the winter of 2010, Ret was asked to do an interview with David Vosseler for CORAL Magazine. That interview, and the meeting with David, led to an opportunity for Ret to travel to Papua New Guinea for three weeks in March 2010. [More]