Star writer honoured

It’s quite the honour. Long-time Toronto Star travel writer Heather Greenwood Davis has been named a “Traveller of the Year” by National Geographic Traveler magazine.

They’re the only family on the list and the only Canadians, Davis said.

Davis and her husband, Ishmael, visited 29 countries during a full 12 months on the road with their two young boys, Ethan and Cameron. The boys were 8 and 6 years old when they left their home in the GTA in June 2011.

On their trip, they rode elephants and slid down scary ziplines in the rain in Thailand, walked the teeming streets of Indian cities and visited the Eiffel Tower in France. They also took mud-baths in Colombia, witnessed the marvelous wildlife of the Galapagos Islands and walked the Great Wall of China during what Davis describes as a life-changing experience and the education of a lifetime for the whole family.

For more on their adventures, and for additional photos and a link to a TV interview they did, go to Travel Editor Jim Byers’ blog: www.thestar.blogs.com/travel.