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In Defense of the Foreign Service Test

The Wall Street Journal

Hidden Tampa: The Best of an Often-Overlooked Florida City

The New York Times

Can You Be Addicted to Travel? (Mad Travelers Excerpt)

Atlas Obscura

Read the First Chapter of Mad Travelers

Literary Hub

Dave Talks Switzerland with Roger Federer

The New York Times

Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed & the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth

Now Available!

Hanging with the Hustlers in the Dominican Republic

Perceptive Travel

Media Ignore Florida Covid Turnaround

The Wall Street Journal

Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts

Published March 2, 2021

I Got Covid on a Cruise. I’d Take Another.

The Wall Street Journal

A Message to the Haters from Florida Man

The Wall Street Journal

When Your Favorite Companies Go Woke

The Wall Street Journal

36 Hours in Basel, Switzerland

The New York Times

Nobody Likes Tourists—Until They Stay Away

The Wall Street Journal

Politicians Serve Orwellian Tennis Rules

The Wall Street Journal

LINK TO DAVE’S BOOK, BREAKFAST WITH POLYGAMISTS

Breakfast with Polygamists: Dispatches from the Margins of The Americas

Davis Cup Controversy Proves Not All Records Age Gracefully

The New York Times

What I Wouldn’t Give for a Shave That Isn’t Woke

The Wall Street Journal

NEW EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Bed, Breakfast & Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe

After Oregon Standoff, Birding is Back

The New York Times

Few Know How to Enter; Fewer Finish

The New York Times

Trespassing at Ernest Hemingway’s House

Literary Hub

The Last Hike of David Gimelfarb

Chicago Magazine

The Day They Belabored the Point

The New York Times

This Indonesian Island Is a Respite From Bali. At Least for Now.

The New York Times

Putting a Zero on Federer is a Rare Achievement

The New York Times

Inside Spain’s Secret Food Societies

BBC Travel

Behind the Scenes of the Hatfield McCoy Feud

The Washington Post

Bio

Dave Seminara is a writer and former diplomat based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the author of four excellent books and hundreds of articles.