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Lydia Dishman
Contributing Writer
Acoma Pueblo Trail, NM »
About Lydia
Lydia Dishman is an award-winning columnist and features writer whose work appears in a variety of local and national publications. Though she has traveled extensively throughout the lower 48, her heartstrings keep pulling her back to New York, where she was born and raised, and where the undisputed world's best pizza can be had by the slice.
10 Travel Tidbits About Lydia
- Best travel tip: Avoid checked baggage (no, you really don't need five pairs of shoes)
- Addicted to: Reading The Sartorialist blog and eating pizza (see above), not necessarily at the same time
- Weirdest local food eaten and where: Chicken fried corn at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD
- Coolest place you'd go on $400: Portland, OR (that is about the cost of the ticket)
- Favorite US Destination: Nantucket, MA
- Something you love about travel/foreign countries: Waking up in a new place
- Favorite small town: Livingston, MT
- Most detested thing while traveling: The time it takes to get from Point A to Point B (point A being the door of my home - point B being the hotel or dwelling at the destination)
- # 1 place on your "to-see" list: Palermo, Sicily
- Best armchair travel book(s): Passionate Nomad by Freya Stark; Road Scholar: Coast to Coast Late in the Century by Andrei Codrescu
