Matthew Poole is one of the best selling travel book writers in the nation, writing and contributing to more than two dozen travel guides to California, Las Vegas, Hawaii, and abroad. His clients include Frommer’s, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books, and Berlitz. Before becoming a travel writer and photographer, he worked as an English tutor in Prague, a ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and a scuba instructor in Maui and Thailand. You can follow his travel tweets at www.twitter.com/GetawayGuru and Facebook posts at www.facebook.com/LocalGetaways.