Alex Schechter

I planned your trip to Vegas! nyti.ms/41mhiKK

@tommyburson yes! Of course I remember you. How have you been?

@_earth2alex idk if you remember me but, as odd as it sounds, you were my entry into this shit-show of a field, and I’m thanking you…for my shame? Really, thank you, though, and it’d be great to actually catch up.

@FredaMoon awesome, Freda!

Between the challenges of pandemic parenting and my dad's illness and death, this year has been more focused on the hard stuff of life than the highs of travel journalism. So I'm especially honored and grateful to have been recognized by the Society of American Travel Writers.

fantastic investigative piece on why America’s roads are becoming unsafer, for drivers and pedestrians.

In this week's @NewYorker, I write about India's unprecedented heat wave. "The heat has created a rise in physical, psychological, and social symptoms," one doctor told me. "We have damaged the environment so much. Now the environment is damaging us." newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

For @nytimes I spoke to Director Chuck Sams, the new head of the @NatlParkService (and its first ever Native American director) nyti.ms/3QLTdbH

wonderful piece on the complexities of “solving” homelessness

@MarriottBonvoy @Kimpton if you like the magazines that @NellaMediaGroup makes can you please tell them to pay. their. freelancers.

@marcgraser @NellaMediaGroup thinks it’s “time to pay attention to LGBTQ travelers” but first you need to pay attention to your freelancers. 3 months and no check, really? #pride

A teacher who was murdered in the Uvalde shooting last week, and her husband who died the next day of a grief heart attack, had their funerals today. Then 3 active shootings happened simultaneously tonight, and we had to decide whether to feature all 3 or focus on the deadliest.

in my latest for @voxdotcom I followed a fourth-generation Appalachian herbalist into the forest. thanks to @lalamasala for the thoughtful edits! bit.ly/3wYr20l

rereading this & I keep getting stuck on the word ‘civilize’ n.pr/39XMfQ8

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love this barren road trip in western Namibia nytimes.com/2022/01/17/tra…

@guttersniper @lonelyplanet @guttersniper thank you !

On @lonelyplanet as part of our #BestinTravel package: the always-wonderful @_earth2alex on seeking medicinal plants in the jungles of Belize.

Trying to be more sensitive about travel writing in 2022. And what better place to start than this essay on Mayas, medicinal plants, and that time I had cancer. thanks @sebmodak for the fantastic edits! bit.ly/3fblOpA

A great piece here on where travel writing is now, where it might go, and the strange journey from Granta 10 to Granta 157 by @tchesshyre (ignore the title of the article!): thecritic.co.uk/too-woke-to-tr… ⁩

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

LOVE this piece on the effects of overtourism (and the role travel media plays) in Maui

the food ain't bad either!