Bestselling author Elliott Hester is a flight attendant, award-winning travel writer, and former Salon.com columnist. He writes "Continental Drifter," a syndicated travel column carried by the "San Francisco Chronicle", "The Miami Herald", "New York Newsday", and other daily newspapers. He is the author of the books "Plane Insanity "and "Adventures of a Continental Drifter". He lives in Miami Beach, Florida.