Melinda Crow
Texas
I've written and photographed my travels for magazines and in four travel guidebooks. My husband Gary & I have been happy travelers as well as the unhappy version. We've been traveling for more than thirty years. Planes, trains, automobiles, buses, cruise ships, and pickup campers have carried us on journeys to half of the fifty states and sixteen foreign countries. We’ve traveled for business; we’ve traveled for pleasure. We’ve traveled with a baby, a teenager, and with Grandma.
But it is through our experiences during sixteen years of owning a lakeside resort that we have truly come to know the travelers’ soul. We’ve been a part of family reunions, funerals, and weddings. We’ve hosted one night stands and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. We’ve been cursed at, laughed at, and physically threatened. We’ve been written about kindly and not so kindly. We’ve made life-long friends and thousands of casual acquaintances. We’ve had incidents involving sheriffs, firefighters, and brain surgeons. I could write quite a comedy about all of the things we have seen and experienced at our little resort.
Maybe someday I'll write a movie script, but right now I have one purpose: to bring happiness and hope to the travel weary and the travel leery. And to help others in the hospitality industry do the same.
Traveling is life at its most exhilarating. It IS life.
Author & Photographer of four Falcon Guides:
Rockhounding Texas
The Rockhound's Guide to New Mexico
Camping Colorado, 3rd Edition
Camping New Mexico
Author: Live Happy
Creator, Author, & Photographer of Travel Happy Log Books:
Bonaire Dive Notes to Self
Cozumel Dive Notes to Self
Hawaii Dive Notes to Self
Camping Notes to Self
Travel Notes to Self