David Yeadon, author of TRAVELER’s newest series, Hidden America, and over 220 travel-related writings Photograph by Bill Diamond

 

In print David Yeadon kicks off the Hidden America series with a piece on Vinalhaven, Maine. Here, an introduction.

About the Series
A new breed of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER adventures has begun in a United States you possibly never knew existed. Your companion-guide is David Yeadon, a Briton and self-proclaimed Earth gypsy. For the last 25 years Yeadon has been writing, sketching, and celebrating the hidden corners of the vast U.S. in his many travel works, including contributions to National Geographic’s Guide to America’s Hidden Corners and Last Wild Places.

Read about this breathtaking wonder and its many charms in TRAVELER’s May/June issue. Photograph by David Alan Harvey

In this series you can bid farewell to the superhighways, the motel strips, and all the hullabaloo of a jostling, honking urbanity and the cloying claustrophobia of overcrowded tourist hot spots. We’re off to celebrate the Real America. You will gain a new respect for the glories of this magnificent country—its land, its people, its communities, its history. We will not follow the easiest routes—instead, we will take the ones less traveled, for what Yeadon describes as “true shunpiking” experiences.

What’s Ahead
Where will Yeadon’s July/August Hidden America adventure take him? Here are some clues from the author:

“We climb rapidly out of a palm-graced coastal city into a realm of high ridges and forests, with false-fronted towns, Spanish missions, Native American reservations, old gold mines, and hot mineral spas. Then we ease on into the vast spaces of a cactus-dotted desert cut by emigrant trails and boasting a mountain range still rising up along a precariously active fault zone.”

—Paul Martin

Paul Martin is TRAVELER’s executive editor.