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Katherine is a travel columnist for Forbes, and TripSavvy; and her work has appeared in many publications like Architectural Digest, The Week, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider, and more.

Katherine Parker Magyar is a New York-based writer with a focus on travel, culture, and adventure\\u2014and a preference for far-flung-locales.

Katherine is a travel columnist for Forbes, as well as the Caribbean expert for TripSavvy; her work has also appeared in Architectural Digest, The Week, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider, among other publications. She has traveled to 6 continents, 63 countries, and all 50 states in pursuit of a good story.

Most passionate about

• Today, I\\u2019m in lockdown. However, I\\u2019ve had amazing experiences while I\\u2019ve been traveling pretty much non-stop over the past two years. I visited 41 countries in 23 months, and I saw so much and moved so quickly, it almost felt normal. Being forced to slow down and take stock of everything I\\u2019ve seen, what I took away from everything ... it has been a fortune to be forced inside and reflect.
• I tracked every single travel experience that I had. It helps give me a broader, nuanced perspective on the places I\\u2019ve been and the people I\\u2019ve met.
• I think that traveling is automatically like a force for good. There is a quote by Mark Twain: \\u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness\\u2026\\u201d He said: \\u201cBroad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.\\u201d
• When I was traveling, I felt like I was constantly getting affirmation of the goodness of society and people. I started scrapbooking. I took all the photos, the letters people wrote to me, the stories I\\u2019ve been written, and started compiling them and reliving those experiences.
• I think now more than ever, people need stories about the good that is happening in the world. It\\u2019s easy to be pessimistic and fall into desperation about everything that is happening now.
• So, what I started to do, and what I\\u2019m most passionate about today, is compiling all the stories of the last two years into a book.
• I had such amazing experiences. I felt history come alive for me and I felt so inspired by it. I like to explore.
• Other travel writers told me, \\u201cYou need to focus. You can\\u2019t go for only one morning, or only for a week to Kenya. You need two weeks, or you need at least 10 days to go to China. You can\\u2019t go to China for only five days.\\u201d But I disagree.
• At the end of the day, you have only one life. If you keep waiting to have the perfect time, and the perfect amount of money, and the perfect schedule, you\\u2019ll never go.

Katherine\\u2019s career and story

• I hope my story inspires people who think, \\u2018Maybe it\\u2019s too late for me.\\u2019 I had always wanted to be a writer. I just love writing. I feel it comes naturally to me.
• Travel is another passion of mine. I always wanted to share my travel experiences with people.
• I\\u2019ll tell the story of how I started my entrepreneurial journey. In college, I was an English major and I loved it. After college, I wanted to become a teacher and a professor. I wanted to become a poetry professor, an American Poetry professor.
• I didn\\u2019t want to start teaching right away after college, so I got a job in advertising. It was 2009, at the end of the recession, and it wasn\\u2019t easy to find a job. That was the first step, and I think that every step along the way makes sense ultimately.
• There were advantages to working in \\u201ccorporate America\\u201d and to making money, but I wasn\\u2019t passionate about my job. I guess that\\u2019s why I wasn\\u2019t so good at it. I was afraid that I wouldn\\u2019t reach my dream of becoming a writer. After a year, I was fired because, as I said, I wasn\\u2019t passionate about it and wasn\\u2019t good at doing..."