Spud Hilton has been a professional photojournalist for more than 20 years, and spent the past decade taking feature photos for the Travel Section of the San Francisco Chronicle, where he is the Travel Editor. He lectures on travel photography and travel writing. His stories and photos can be found at the SFGate travel section (sfgate.com/travel) and the Bad Latitude blog (sfgate.com/badlatitude), and he can be followed on Twitter: @SpudHilton