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The New York鈥揵ased travel writer Sarah Khan 鈥�03 has filed dispatches from six continents for the New York Times听alone. Indeed, she likens herself to the globetrotting video-game heroine Carmen Sandiego, hence her social media hashtag #whereintheworldissarahkhan. Grounded by the pandemic, however, Khan has been poring over old notebooks from her seven years as a freelance journalist (previously, she was an editor at Travel + Leisure听and Gotham听magazines). They are a means of exploration in a stagnant time, of course, but she鈥檚 also using them to pitch stories with fresh takes on previous trips. 鈥淏y cataloging my past experiences, I鈥檓 looking at them in different ways,鈥� Khan said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 what I can offer.鈥澨�听鈥�Jacqueline Tempera

CHILDHOOD DREAM
I鈥檝e been telling people I wanted to be a journalist since I was 8 years old. It was nonnegotiable. My father worked for an airline when I was younger and traveling was always a part of my life and my upbringing. Blending the two made a lot of sense.听

LEAP OF FAITH
After working in magazines and falling in love with travel writing, I moved to South Africa and gave myself a year to make freelance writing work financially. I leveraged the fact that I was living in Cape Town and broke onto a lot of different editors鈥� radars. I know not everyone has the luxury or ability to move overseas, especially these days, but if you ever have the opportunity鈥攄o it.

SENSE OF PLACE
You can鈥檛 try to tell the entire story of a place as an outsider helicoptering in. What good travel writing is meant to do, and what I aspire to do, is use my perspective and my life experiences to tell a side of a story of that place.听

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