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Insight: Sam McManis on Travel Writing

Monday, August 11, 2014 | Sacramento, CA | Permalink
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So, you want to be a travel writer? Where do you go? And how do you capture the essence of a town or city as an outsider dropping in for maybe a day or two? One man who can help answer these questions is Sam McManis, a Sacramento Bee travel writer who just kind of fell into the gig. 

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