Bill Murray

Lifelong traveler Bill Murray has visited 120 countries and territories from Albania to Zimbabwe. NOT Bill Murray the actor. Follow @BMurrayWriter on Twitter and the blog commonsenseandwhiskey.com. His first book, Common Sense and Whiskey, is a collection of sixteen off-the-beaten-path travel stories. You'll sail across Lake Malawi on an ancient passenger ship, pay a somnambulant visit to the world's least vibrant capital city, Ascuncion, take an unusual cruise up Papua New Guinea's Sepik River...See more

Lifelong traveler Bill Murray has visited 120 countries and territories from Albania to Zimbabwe. NOT Bill Murray the actor. Follow @BMurrayWriter on Twitter and the blog commonsenseandwhiskey.com. His first book, Common Sense and Whiskey, is a collection of sixteen off-the-beaten-path travel stories. You'll sail across Lake Malawi on an ancient passenger ship, pay a somnambulant visit to the world's least vibrant capital city, Ascuncion, take an unusual cruise up Papua New Guinea's Sepik River with no other passengers, and enter into a fraught multi-day relationship all the way across Tibet with a driver called Noodle Boy. Bill's second book is Visiting Chernobyl, A Considered Guide for Travelers. It revisits all the drama of the accident itself, relives the desperate evacuation, and discusses both the physical environs and the political circumstances of the Soviet Union at the time. It's a quick, handy and accessible introduction to the worst nuclear accident in history, useful for aspiring visitors and armchair travelers alike. It's not your traditional guidebook. Audiobook versions of both, narrated by the author, are available. ----- Bill and his wife Mirja maintain the photo web site EarthPhotos.com, 20,000+ photos from around the world, and the travel blog CommonSenseAndWhiskey.com. They spend as much of the summer as they can in a cabin by Lake Saimaa in Finland, and live on a horse farm in the southern Appalachian mountains of Georgia, USA. See less