Disappearing Destinations

Heather Hansen has worked on staff at "Boston" magazine, the "Sunday Independent" (Johannesburg, South Africa) and the "Provincetown Banner," where she wrote extensively on people and the environment. She won the "Harper's" magazine award for Distinguished Magazine Writing in 1999, and has contributed to two books by Gail Sheehy: "Middletown, America" and "Hillary's Choice." Heather has political science and English degrees from Mount Holyoke College and a masters in journalism from UC Berkeley. She lives in Boulder, Colorado. Kimberly Lisagor is a freelance journalist who has written about travel and the environment for "Outside," "Mother Jones," "Men's Journal," "National""Geographic Adventure," "USA Weekend," "The New York Times," "Los Angeles Times" and others. She is the author of "Outside's Wilderness Lodge Vacations"(W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), which won the Lowell Thomas Award for best guidebook and an Award of Excellence from the North American Travel Journalists Association. She lives in San Luis Obispo, California.