About cpbaker: Christopher P. Baker’s passion for travel writing and photography helps Christopher maintain a schedule in which he travels around the globe on assignment for leading editors and publishers. He is acclaimed as one of North America's most multi-talented and successful travel writers and photographers with a special focus on the Caribbean and Latin American, and has been awarded "Travel Writer of the Year" by both the Jamaica Tourist Board and Caribbean Tourism Organization. He is acknowledged as the world’s leading regional expert on travel to Cuba. Christopher has written and photographed for more than 150 publications worldwide as far-ranging as Caribbean Travel & Life, Elle, Islands, National Geographic Traveler, and National Wildlife. He has written best-selling guidebooks to California, Cuba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, The Bahamas, Puerto Rico and elsewhere on behalf of such publishers as Dorling Kindersley, Frommer's, Lonely Planet, Macmillan, and National Geographic Society, and is the author of the multiple award-winning literary travelog, Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba. He has been a faculty member of Cunard Cruise Lines and Holland America Cruises, and lectures aboard cruise ships throughout the Caribbean and further afield. Chris appears frequently on radio and television talk shows, including Fox, the National Geographic Channel, NPR Public Radio, ABC, NBC, and other nationally syndicated programs. Prior to become a travel journalist, Christopher worked in the adventure travel industry. He was also president of British Pride Tours, which he founded, and has managed and escorted group tours to Cuba, England, Hong Kong, Korea, and New Zealand.