Whether she is hiking in the foothills of Ecuador's snow-capped Andean mountains, working with a team to build a home in a marginal neighborhood of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, or taste-testing her way through the best coffee shops and gelaterias of Rome, Amy E. Robertson most enjoys travel that involves authentic experiences and person-to-person connections. In writing about travel, she hopes to share those experiences and inspire others to embark on their own journeys of discovery.During her travels, Amy has fallen in love over and over again--with salsa dancing in South America, with the efficiency of the red double-decker buses and black cabs in London, with the stone temples of the Ancient Maya and Incas, with the silks and spices of Indian markets, and most of all, with the unique people she has met along the way.Amy has long been obsessed with travel. She studied in Boston and Madrid for her bachelor's degree, and since then, she has traveled far and wide, visiting more than 60 countries and living in six. Her professional experience has included conducting surveys on the cost of living around the world for a consulting firm, and fundraising with an international refugee aid agency. The volunteer experiences she has had--from monitoring presidential elections in Ecuador, to working with youth in Bolivia on the creation of social documentaries, to collecting and distributing aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon--have helped her to better understand the people she met, and enriched her as much as it did those she supported. She fell in love once again, while earning a master's degree in development studies at the London School of Economics, with a young man who hailed from Italy. In 2012, after eight years living in Latin America (Ecuador and Honduras), Amy moved with her husband and two children to Beirut, Lebanon. She spends three months a year divided between her family's hometowns: Seattle, Rome, and Messina, Sicily. She is the author of Moon Volunteer Vacations in Latin America and Moon Honduras & the Bay Islands, and her writing has been published in National Geographic Traveler, Christian Science Monitor, and Travel + Leisure, among others. She is currently working on a novel for young adults.