Joe is an explorer, adventurer and freelance travel writer who kicked off his career with a solo, cross-country road trip of America in a tent. He has charbroiled gas station burritos over an open fire in Utah and cooked with a Swedish countess in a medieval castle. He's shared the table of a Chinese billionaire in a subterranean research facility and summited the ruins of Vlad Dracula's mountain fortress in Romania. His work has appeared in publications like National Geographic, Forbes, Lonely Planet, Travel Channel and Fodor's Travel.