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Hometown

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Places I've been

At the age of three months, my family left Cleveland, and I spent my childhood as an Army brat, living in Frankfurt, Germany; Huntsville, Alabama; Aberdeen, Maryland; Ft. Knox, Kentucky; and Heidleberg, Germany. My father retired in the Washington, DC, area, and since I graduated from high school there and lived there professionally as a journalist for 40 years, I consider myself mostly a Washingtonian.

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Check out LifeDreams of many Eons members, and you’ll find travel is a consistent theme.

Well, I’m from Washington, and I’m here to help you.

Actually, that’s not quite true—I lived in Washington, DC, for nearly 40 years, but I moved to St. Paul, MN, four-and-a-half years ago.

But I’m still here to help you. During more than three decades as an investigative reporter—first for the Washington Post and later for a variety of magazines—I traveled constantly. I really got serious about it more than 16 years ago when I became a consumer travel commentator for what was then a new, evening business show on public radio called “Marketplace.”

I adopted the moniker “The Savvy Traveler,” and, unbeknownst to me at the time, that marked the beginning of a new career path. Gradually, traveling and writing about travel began to monopolize my professional life. Today, I’m a contributing editor with National Geographic Traveler magazine as well as the host and executive producer of "Rudy Maxa's World," a public televison travel series.  I've hosted 78 episodes on destinations as far afield as Shanghai to St. Petersburg, from Istanbul to Buenos Aires.  You can check out some of my travel notes and purchase DVDs at Maxa.tv. 

So . . . that experience is why Eons asked me to write travel blogs.

I’m riff on travel and share with you ideas, advice and observations. And I’m going to try to answer your questions. While I can’t plan travel itineraries, I may be able to steer you in the right direction. Just ask. Post your questions in our group, Rudy's Savvy Travel Group

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