David Armstrong has written about some of the most intriguing places on the planet during his career as a staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. He is a widely published freelance journalist, publishing articles in the Globe and Mail (Toronto), Wired, Village Voice, Travel & Leisure, the Alaska Airlines in-flight magazine, Toronto Star, Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Politique Hebro (France) and Swing Journal (Japan).

He writes David Armstrong on Air Travel, a twice weekly column for Aviation.com and is a regular contributor on travel to The Good Life section of TheStreet.com.

He is the author of four books – including the guidebook “Secret San Francisco’’ - and co-author of a fifth. In addition to his travel writing, David has written film and theater criticism, worked as an international trade reporter, reviewed books, edited an alternative weekly newspaper and a monthly arts magazine, and covered the cultural and commercial dimensions of globalization. His books have been published in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. He lives with his London-born wife in California.