Sign in | Search: ezShop content How I got started as a Travel Writer by Philip Greenspun Home : Travel : One Article I owe everything to my parents. It was a dark cold Boston winter in 1989. I was struggling to keep alive a high-tech company that I had foolishly started. One day a letter arrived from Bethesda, Maryland, where I was reared, describing my life in glowing terms. For the first ...