The two of us have been traveling since the late 1960s and writing about it since the late 1970s when we authored a three-volume set of guidebooks about America’s national parks.  We subsequently authored “Complete Guide to the National Park Lodges,” a guidebook describing each of the nearly 100 lodging facilities in America’s national parks. Our newest book, “Exploring the Oregon Trail,” was published in 2023 by the Globe Pequot Press following our third journey following the trail from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. In addition to books, we have authored numerous travel articles for newspapers and magazines.
      In 2016 we began a weekly travel column for Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., an Alabama-based firm that owned over 110 newspapers throughout a 24-state area stretching from Texas to New England.  We are currenting writing a monthly travel column for the same firm.
    We have discussed travel on various radio programs and twice been invited guests on NBC’s Today, once during a live show from Yellowstone National Park and the following year from Grand Canyon National Park. We were interviewed by Bryant Gumbel during each visit.
      While particularly interested in America’s national parks and lodges, our articles cover a wide variety of travel activities and destinations.  Past topics include Key West, the Texas Hill Country, Route 66, Ann Arbor, Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard, driving the loneliest road in America, a family of chocolate makers in North Dakota, traveling through Europe by rail, and following the Oregon and the Lewis and Clark Trails.
      We have authored Web articles for Away.com, Forbestraveler.com, USAToday.com, and are regular contributors to nationalparkstraveler.com.

Our Background

 Kay Woelfel Scott was born in Austin, Minnesota, and raised in Yankton, South Dakota, and Clearwater, Florida.  She earned degrees from Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, and the University of Arkansas.  Kay served as a teacher and administrator in elementary schools in Arkansas, Florida, and Georgia.
David Scott was born and raised in Rushville, Indiana.  He graduated from Purdue University, Florida State University, and earned a PhD in economics from the University of Arkansas. He has authored over two dozen books about investing and personal finance including Wall Street Words and the American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms, both for Houghton Mifflin.