About Paul M. Franklin

Paul has been a professional free-lance writer and photographer since 1989. From the beginning, he has been guided by a passion to experience the beauty and mysteries of  nature  - a desire to explore the world around him and  to discover what lays beyond the next turn in the road. It is these passions that helped him develop his mission statement as a creative artist: “To experience the incredible beauty and diversity of the world and share it with others through words and images.”

He has authored two guidebooks in the prestigious Eyewitness Travel Guide Series; (Canada, (2000) and Southwest USA (2001)), as well as the AAA Spiral Guide to Washington DC  (2002). His travel and general-interest articles and photographs have appeared in numerous publications including: Travel America, Canadian, Coast to Coast, Harrowsmith, WoodenBoat, Motorhome, Trailer Life, Car & Travel (AAA), Liesureways (CAA), Family Motorcoaching, Anglo American (European) and Vista USA. He is currently photographing the beautiful public gardens and parks of Washington D.C. for The Complete Guide to the Public Parks and Gardens of Washington D.C. by Silverlining Press, an imprint of Barnes and Noble.

Paul frequently works on extended assignments from “Adventure Unit One”, his lightweight four- wheel drive truck and trailer that are his office and home on the road. Highlights of his adventures in the last five years include drifting in a Zodiac among a pod of rare Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy; touring the excavation of a 15^th century Basque whaling settlement on the coast of Labrador; exploring  thousand-year-old Anasazi sites on the Colorado Plateau; wandering through sunlit olive orchards strewn with Roman ruins on the isle of Crete; and standing among a cloud of seabirds soaring, nesting and feeding their young atop the sea cliffs of Cape St. Mary’s Newfoundland.

In 1989, Paul and his wife, Nancy, escaped the fast-paced lifestyles of L.A. to live for over a decade in a small, picturesque fishing village on the coast of Nova Scotia. In 2000, they returned to the U.S., settling in Northern Virginia, where they live with their two Siamese cats, Bud and Tess. When Paul is not on the road, he and Nancy spend weekends together exploring the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay aboard their sailboat Bagatelle.

 

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