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We (ahem, me) all fell for Andrew McCarthy onscreen in ’80s classics such as Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire , as he often played the sensitive, pensive and soulful guy. These days, in reading Andrew’s travel memoir, The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down , it isn’t hard to see him again as that same thoughtful and conflicted drifter.
Living a life in Hollywood’s shadow hasn’t made Andrew any less relatable as the characters he often played onscreen in his younger years. He is just like us: vulnerable, fearful at times, and looking to escape to a place, at least for a moment or two, where “no one knows who you are or where you are.” He’s the guy you could find yourself sitting across from on a train and talking cheap hotels in reno nevada with for hours about travel.
I did get to talk to Andrew about travel, maybe not on a train, but on the phone while he was at home briefly in New York. Find out how Andrew changed his label of “Brat Pack” actor and “‘80s heartthrob” to New York Times best-selling travel author and National Geographic Traveler editor-at-large. Plus, learn what his travel fears are … and why he hates travel stories that involve taxis.
I started travel writing about 10 years ago. I had been traveling a lot and a lot of what I was experiencing wasn’t captured in what I was reading … it was more “go here, do this.” I thought travel was more important, to me it was a life-changing thing it opened my place in the world. I knew someone cheap hotels in reno nevada who knew an editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine (Keith Bellows, editor-in-chief). He agreed cheap hotels in reno nevada to have a drink with me and I said you should let me write for your magazine. He said, “Well, you’re an actor.” I said, “But I know how to tell a story. That’s what I do (in acting and directing).” He thought that was a good answer. It took me a year or so of stalking him and sending him pitches. I told him if it didn’t work out he didn’t have to pay me. I did a story for him about Ireland and it worked out well, so he asked me to do another one and then it just took off from there.
I was very conscious when I started writing that I was doing this for me, because I wanted to, because I had something to say. I knew that if I was outed “the guy who was in  Pretty in Pink  thinks he’s travel writer, oh right” that it would be very easy to dismiss. cheap hotels in reno nevada So I was very conscious to write for very good outlets, so that by the time I was outed I was writing for places like  The Atlantic ,  New York Times, National Geographic Traveler .
I didn’t really want to write a travel book. Travel helps me personally with things. And it’s what I bring to travel the personal in travel. I don’t care about Patagonia, per se. (Although, I love Patagonia, I can’t wait to go back.) I wasn’t interested in writing a travelogue. All I wanted to do is get the reader to identity, to nod their head and say, “Yeah, I feel that way, too.” If you aren’t cheap hotels in reno nevada going to reveal yourself, then why should the reader invest all that time in reading? It’s not a tell-all; it just reveals humanness, I hope.
The only way to overcome fears is to go to do it, to walk through them. Fear is fear, fear is irrational. cheap hotels in reno nevada Fear masquerades as many as other things prudence, wisdom and all sorts of other things. Not every fearful decision I’ve made has been bad, but every bad decision I’ve made has been fearful. cheap hotels in reno nevada Fear dominates people in a way that they will not acknowledge. Because they think it makes them weak.
Travel obliterates that … travel is optimism in action, faith in movement. cheap hotels in reno nevada The minute you ask someone for help you are a different cheap hotels in reno nevada person and you are closer to the person you really are. Travel is the quickest and the most fun way to challenge your fears. I’m afraid of flying, but I fly all the time. I’ll be damned cheap hotels in reno nevada if I am going to let fear stop me from doing things cheap hotels in reno nevada I want to do in my life.
All the time. But it’s opened great doors for me. I can be withdrawn in certain situations. People approach me and sometimes we’re not far from their home and suddenly I m at their house for dinner because they saw me in Weekend cheap hotels in reno nevada at Bernie’s .
Depends who I am writing for. Some editors may want a detailed pitch, some might say: Do Tahiti. Bring us back 3,000 words. Go. I try to prepare a fair amount and then the more prepared I am the more room there is for happy accidents. The final product is usually about 50/50. I m following my basic story arc but always the more prepared I am the more relaxed I am.
I think creating citizens of the world is the best thing that we can give them. My parents cheap hotels in reno nevada said they would take us to Europe when we were old enough to appreciate it. Whatever that meant. We never went. My kids have been traveling since they were little kids. It’s a pain in the ass with kids, but showing up with kids in a foreign place is an amazing cheap hotels in reno nevada act of optimism. You are basically saying to the world, “We trust you, receive us.” It’s not like I see the world through their eyes, I don’t know what that means. But I see their eyes their eyes explode and that’s a thrilling feeling. And they’re thrilled by things that I would walk right past. Kids are fascinated by details and details cheap hotels in reno nevada are also what make a great travel writer.
I walk everywhere. I don’t take taxis. One of my pet peeves: If I see an article start with someone talking to a taxi driver or even quoting a taxi driver I put it down. You’re lazy. I m not interested in what the taxi driver has to say. The only way to find a place is to walk it.
The more you feel like yourself the more at home you are. I don’t think of home as a literal place. Geographic home means nothing to me. I grew up in New Jersey and I have never been back. I have lived in New York for 35 years and never call myself a New Yorker. Home is a feeling. I feel most like myself when I am traveling. So when I bring that sense of myself back home I am a better version of myself.
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