Maureen E. Magee is an award-winning writer of travel stories and has been the featured host on two of the Canadian "Off the Map" travel documentary series (Baffin Island and Ethiopia.) She is a re...view moreMaureen E. Magee is an award-winning writer of travel stories and has been the featured host on two of the Canadian "Off the Map" travel documentary series (Baffin Island and Ethiopia.) She is a regular contributor to the travel website Your Life is a Trip and has been published in the Calgary Herald, "Moose on the Loose" anthology, Island Writer magazine, South American Explorer Magazine and Room of One’s Own journal.She started travelling early in life when her father would re-locate with job transfers and insisted on taking her along. After leaving home, Maureen just kept going.A mid-life divorce pulled her away from her five-star travel habits into a more down-and-dirty world of backpacking and she spent seven months on a mainly solo, round-the-world adventure.Meeting up with travel videographer Doug Spencer provided exciting film trips (Off the Map) to Baffin Island in the Canadian High Arctic where she sled across and camped upon the frozen ocean. Her second film trip to Ethiopia to visit remote tribal groups provided the experiences in "Jumping the Bull: Surviving Life, Love and Adventure in Ethiopia."When not travelling or writing, Maureen has worked as an interior decorator, car salesperson, secretary, cultural manager, companion, writing instructor, and whatever else it takes to pay the rent.view less