Travel Editor’s Shocking Confession: “I Haven’t Been Everywhere”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.21.05 | 7:55 PM ET
The stunning tell-all comes in a column today by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Travel Editor David Bear. “I hope this revelation doesn’t come as a shock,” he writes, “but I haven’t been everywhere.” And there’s more: “People often ask me for suggestions about good hotels and restaurants in cities they’ll be visiting, and so many of them seem surprised when a travel editor pleads ignorance simply because he’s never been there.” It’s a terrible fall from grace for a travel editor who, to so many of us, seemed to have been absolutely everywhere. There’s more to the column, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to read it. What might Bear reveal next? That he has yet to summit K2 without oxygen? That he’s never studied Sanskrit in Delhi? That the jungle enclaves of Chiapas rebels are generally unfamiliar to him? No, we’d read quite enough, thank you.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
