{"id":13,"date":"2022-07-24T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:38:00","slug":"a-homepage-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"About Mark Orwoll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Orwoll (markorwoll.substack.com) is a veteran journalist and author.  He earned the Society of American Travel Writers Travel Journalist of the year silver award in 2025. He started his career as a newspaperman in California, then moved to New York, where he was a magazine writer and editor. He was on the staff of\u00a0<em>Travel + Leisure<\/em>\u00a0magazine for 30 years as International Editor, Managing Editor, and in other roles. He is also the author of four books: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-One-Little-Hitch-Life-Changing\/dp\/B0DMTYJXT5\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Just-One-Little-Hitch-Life-Changing\/dp\/B0DMTYJXT5\" target=\"_blank\">Just One Little Hitch<\/a> (Pleasant Villain Press), a travel memoir; <em>Cross Purposes<\/em> (Pleasant Villain Press), a historical thriller;  <em>John Wayne Speaks <\/em>(St. Martin&#8217;s Griffin), a collection of film quotes from the actor, plus an overview of his career and capsule reviews of all 173 films he made); and <em>e-Travel<\/em> (Sams\/Macmillan), one of the first books about planning travel using the Internet. Mark is primarily a travel writer, and has visited more than 95 countries. Since leaving T+L, he has been on assignment for <em>Slate, <\/em>\u00a0<em>Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Robb Report, Town &amp; Country, East-West News Service, Departures,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Fodor&#8217;s Travel, <\/em>the <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, the <em>Travel Channel,<\/em> <em>AARP<\/em>, <em>Frommer\u2019s Travel,<\/em> <em>Hemispheres<\/em> (United Airlines), and many other outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Orwoll (markorwoll.substack.com) is a veteran journalist and author. He earned the Society of American Travel Writers Travel Journalist of the year silver award in 2025. He started his career as a newspaperman in California, then moved to New York, where he was a magazine writer and editor. He was on the staff of\u00a0Travel + &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/?page_id=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Mark Orwoll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markorwoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}