A native New Yorker, Beverly Mann has been a feature, arts, and travel writer in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past 28 years. She has trekked miles of terrain from the West Coast and Canada to Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, and India. Her stories highlight cities and personalities spanning the globe. She has lived in the caves of Spain, danced the tango by the Seine in Paris and in the streets of Argentina, followed the footsteps of the Impressionist painters through Provence, climbed Machu Picchu in Peru and Cinque Terra's precipice overlooking the Mediterranean coastline, zip-lined through the rainforest of Australia, heli-hiked on the 8,200-foot mountain ridge in Canada, participated in the ancient temple ceremonies of Bali, and combed the countryside of Ireland, Yugoslavia, and the island of Corsica.