Kim Palacios is a Bay Area transplant whose epicurean tendencies are matched only by her wanderlust.  She is quadrilingual and holds an M.B.A. in Finance.  While not mourning the death of free markets, she enjoys television and film.

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“Confessions of a Travel Writer” sat, unwatched, on my TiVo as I headed to last weekend’s Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference.
One afternoon, while surrounded by a group of esteemed writers, the topic of the show came up, and the verdict was unanimous – they hated it.
As someone who likes [...]