Michelle McAlister is a freelance writer and world traveler. She primarily travels solo and is a frequent international volunteer. Her stories about travel have appeared in InTravel magazine, eMagazine, the Environmental Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Tango Diva, and have garnered a bronze certificate and honorable mentions in Traveler's Tales' SOLAS Travel Writing Awards 2008. While she calls San Diego home, her overstuffed bookcase sardined with travel journals and maps to far flung locales spur her to travel on, further neglecting her garden.