Sherri Walker Cline has been earning a living as a writer since high school. She studied journalism at California State University, Long Beach, where she won several awards for writing and investigative reporting. Her career brought her to Catalina Island in 1994, where she spent nearly a decade running the island’s newspaper.

Sherri traded in life as a full-time journalist in 2002 to be her own boss. She now runs her own marketing and public-relations company. She loves sharing cultural experiences and discovering the magic that can be found in a bottle of wine.

She is an avid traveler, and has been captivated by Scotland’s castles, awestruck by the Yosemite Valley, and humbled by Costa Rica’s volcanoes. Travel planning is her favorite form of procrastination and she can’t imagine life without another trip on the horizon.

Since their daughter was born, Sherri and her husband have not given up on seeing the world. They have, however, given up on the idea of packing light.