How Writing About Travel Changed My Life And Can Change Yours Mar.13.2021 I was a traveler for decades before I began to write about travel. Sure, I would keep a very basic journal, like so many of us do (âPasta in Rome today very memorableâ), but the leap from pasta aficionado to storyteller took about 50 years. The First Step To Becoming A Travel Writer: Reading Iâve had the travel bug ever since I was a little girl, inspired largely by reading. Brought up in a small community in New Jersey, my spirit soared when reading tales of travel -- both fiction and non. For me, travel writers occupied a higher plane of adventure and experience.