DaveHerndon

In the late 1990s, an editing job at Travel + Leisure opened the door to Africa for Herndon. He developed a case of what the French call mal d’Afrique–a chronic jones for the place and its people–and before long became one of the most knowledgeable correspondents in that rarefied beat. He cultivated a deep understanding of the human dynamics of responsible tourism and conservation, and it informed everything he's done since as a travel writer and editor of Caribbean Travel & Life and New Mexico magazines, and now the UNCHARTED mag.