John Henderson

John Henderson was born, raised, and educated in Eugene, Oregon, and graduated in journalism from his hometown University of Oregon. Upon graduation, he traveled around the world for a year alone before starting a sportswriting career at the now defunct Fournier Newspapers in suburban Seattle. He went on to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he worked from 1980 to 1990, and the Denver Post, where he covered sports from 1990 to 2014 with a sixteen-month sabbatical in Rome in 2001. He has been a freelance travel writer since 1984. John writes the weekly travel blog, Dog-Eared Passport, and the twice-monthly blog, TraveLazio. He lives in Rome.