Over the course of a week, I’d try out three different versions of French Polynesia, until I found one that seemed just right.

Commissioning editor and co-author of Lonely Planet’s British Columbia & The Canadian Rockies, to be published May 2026.

When Lonely Planet's Jessica Lockhart learned her mother was about to die, she had to make the choice no traveler wants to make.

Commissioning editor and co-author of Lonely Planet’s Experience South Pacific, published September 2025.

Contributor to Lonely Planet’s Women Travel Solo, published April 2025.

Commissioning editor and contributor to Lonely Planet’s East Coast Australia, published August 2024.

Commissioning editor and contributor to Lonely Planet’s Australia guidebook, published August 2024.

Contributor to Lonely Planet’s The Joy of Quiet Places, published August 2024.

Contributor to Lonely Planet’s Offbeat North America, published May 2024.

Co-author of a Lonely Planet cycling guidebook, published in October 2023.

Contributor to Lonely Planet’s collection of 60 wild swims, published September 2023.

Co-author of Lonely Planet’s “Experience East Coast Australia” guidebook, published September 2022.