Nate Cavalieri is a writer and musician based in Oakland. California, and has authored over a dozen titles for Lonely Planet including guides to California, the Caribbean and Latin America, and Epic Bike Rides of the World. He 's cycled across China and Southern Africa as a guide with Tour d'Afrique, played third chair percussion in an Orlando theme park and accompanied modern dance classes. Brett Atkinson is based in Auckland, New Zealand, but is frequently on the road for Lonely Planet.
He's a full-time travel and food writer, and is featured regularly on the Lonely Planet website and in newspapers, magazines and websites across New Zealand and Australia. Since becoming a Lonely Planet author in 2005. Brett has covered areas as diverse as Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Morocco, California and the South Pacific. An award-winning travel and food writer, Andrew Bender has written three dozen Lonely Planet guidebooks.
Plus numerous articles for lonelyplanet. com. Outside of Lonely Planet, he writes the Seat 1A travel site for Forbes. com and is a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, in-flight magazines and more. Andrew has lived in Japan, France and the Netherlands : a native New Englander, he now lives in the Los Angeles area.
