Contributor
Melanie Haiken is a travel writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area who contributes regularly to TPG and whose stories have also appeared in National Geographic, BBC, AFAR, CNN, Sierra, AARP, and many other magazines. She loves to hike, eat and snorkel her way around the world, preferably with her daughters, her dogs, or all four, and documents her adventures at Health-Conscious-Travel.com.
