In this two-session class, we?ll explore the wide range of creative possibilities available to practitioners of the much-misunderstood genre of travel writing. We'll consider the various types of travel writing projects, ranging from service-oriented "ten best" "thirty-six hours in..." pieces to more literary memoir style travel pieces. In addition to developing practical skills of research and crafting sentences, we?ll examine how the struggle to capture settings with words reveals larger truths about not only the places we visit, but also the people who move through them (including ourselves).