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Travel guide
By Lynn Sheka, Comm ’09 and former editorial intern
Name a country—and chances are good that Carole Herdegen, Arts ’60, traveled there.
She mushed her own dog sled team in the Arctic Circle, camped in the Australian Outback with Aborigines, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and kayaked Alaska’s Yukon River. Referring to herself as an “adventure traveler,” Herdegen records her experiences through stories and photographs on her award-winning Web site, www.travelsite.com.
“There’s a very big difference between a tourist and a traveler,” she says. “A tourist just sees the surface, whereas a traveler has an innate curiosity to learn more.” Herdegen falls into the latter category. Her curiosity is always piqued. She majored in history and education at Marquette and says learning about the world fuels her passion for adventure travel.
After graduating, she was a teacher, then moved to Europe for 18 years because her husband, Dick Herdegen, Bus Ad ’60, took a job there. She was bitten by the travel bug and decided to try her hand at freelance photography. Editors always asked for stories to go with her photos, so Herdegen started writing. She hasn’t stopped.
Her articles appear in trade publications and travel magazines, and she’s a regular travel correspondent on a nationally syndicated radio talk show. The North American Travel Journalists Association named her Web site “Best Online Travel Magazine” in 2007.
“When I visit a country, I immerse myself in the culture and the people,” she says. “Traveling alone forces you to reach out and make connections. And as a result, I’ve seen things that other people only dream about.”
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