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  • Clips from Magazines and Interviews
  • The Official Louisiana Tour Guide
  • Tall Magazine
  • Louisiana Life Magazine: Travel Edition
  • Icelandair: Stopover Magazine
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Work with Shannon today!

Shannon DalPozzal has contributed to numerous print magazines, newspapers, online outlets, and television news media under the alias Shannon Lane and also Shannon DalPozzal. Below is a curated collection of print articles as examples of her writing style and skills. Her writing content includes travel, lifestyle, food and wine, travel technology, airline and hotel reviews, along with regional travel guides and personality interviews.

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Clips from Magazines and Interviews

Louisiana Travel Guide ClipsDownload

The Official Louisiana Tour Guide

Shannon contributed to The Official Louisiana State Travel Guide, published by the Louisiana Department of Travel and Tourism. This guide was distributed in all rest areas, Convention and Visitor Bureaus, and used to inspire visitors from all over the globe to experience special areas of her home state.

Top Hotels for Tall TravelersDownload

Tall Magazine

This cover story was a roundup of hotel rooms specifically designed for those of taller height.

Louisiana Life MagazineDownload

Louisiana Life Magazine: Travel Edition

Shannon contributed a feature story and full regional sections of this special travel edition of Louisiana Life Magazine.

Icelandair StopoverDownload

Icelandair: Stopover Magazine

Shannon’s social media coverage during her travels around Iceland was recognized in Icelandair’s inflight magazine, Stopover.

Business Traveler USA

Business Traveler USA

Shannon was a features writer for Business Traveler USA Magazine focusing on travel technology, hotel, and airlines reviews.

Bangkok Mag Clip

Food Wine Travel Magazine

Shannon contributed a feature for IFTWA’s Food Wine & Travel Magazine.

WanderwithWonder.com

Wander with Wonder

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From Wisconsin cheese and wine to conversations ab From Wisconsin cheese and wine to conversations about culinary travel, storytelling, and the future of travel media, this year’s @ifwtwa1 Conference in Milwaukee was full of opportunities to learn, connect, and be inspired.

One of my personal highlights was stepping into the role of speaker to present my workshop, Media Kits That Work: Turning Your Journey Into Opportunity. Sharing what I’ve learned over the years with fellow travel writers and content creators was both rewarding and a reminder of why I love this community.

Throughout the conference, we explored @wisconsincheese and @wisconsinwine offerings, learned more about @hollandamericaline culinary programs, and heard from talented chefs and industry leaders, including @chefpaulbartolotta . Of course, there were plenty of memorable meals and conversations along the way. All in the name of professional development, naturally. 😉

But perhaps the funniest twist of the conference came with the announcement of our 2027 destination: @visitcentralfl in Polk County!

After traveling to @visitmilwaukee for this year’s gathering, next year the conference is coming to the very county I now call home. Apparently, sometimes the best travel opportunities really are in your own backyard.

Grateful for the friendships, fresh perspectives, and inspiration I’m bringing home from Milwaukee. Looking forward to seeing everyone in Central Florida in 2027!

#IFWTWA2026 #TravelWriters #CulinaryTravel
On my flight back to MCO I opened the pages of my On my flight back to MCO I opened the pages of my dear friend’s first fiction novel and couldn’t put it down. Can’t wait to finish reading the pages in my hand. It was just right for stepping away from electronics. Kudos @wanderwithwonder Susan Lanier-Graham (this should be made into a @hallmarkchannel movie)
Popped over to @milwaukeeart for a walkabout. Cool Popped over to @milwaukeeart for a walkabout. Cool museum. Thanks for the museum pass @visitmilwaukee + @ifwtwa1 #IFWTWA2026
Early morning flight to MKE & #IFWTWA2026 - I have Early morning flight to MKE & #IFWTWA2026 - I have a front row seat to this beautiful start to an exciting adventure, thanks to @southwestair 

I’m presenting a session on Monday!  Media Kits That Work: Turning Your Journey Into Opportunity
 
Looking forward to talking all things Food, Wine & Travel with conference attendees 🍷😊✈️
When life gives you BOGO watermelon at @publix , y When life gives you BOGO watermelon at @publix , you make cocktails. 🍉🍹🌴

Introducing The Pink Palm, because apparently I can’t resist a good deal OR an excuse to pop the Prosecco. 🥂 (did I mention the Mionetto Prosecco had a $1 off coupon?)

A little taste of Florida sunshine in a glass!

The Pink Palm 🍉🌴

2 oz fresh watermelon juice
1 oz vodka
½ oz triple sec
½ oz key lime juice
3 fresh basil leaves
2–3 oz chilled Prosecco

Gently muddle basil with watermelon juice. Add vodka, triple sec, and lime. Shake with ice, strain into a wine glass with fresh ice, and top with Prosecco. Garnish with basil.

Cheers to Publix for the BOGO inspiration! Sometimes the best happy hours start in the produce department. 🥂

#ThePinkPalm #PublixBOGO #FloridaHappyHour #CocktailHour #WatermelonCocktail
Yesterday we moseyed around EPCOT while the car wa Yesterday we moseyed around EPCOT while the car was being serviced. I mean, why sit at a service center when you can pop over to a Disney Park!
The Mimosa flight was a must. Hello! It’s me 🤷🏼‍♀️

We walked around and noshed here and there, sampling a few things. The rain tried to dampen the day, but we checked out some of the not busy areas around EPCOT: Awesome Planet and the Disney & PIXAR Short Film Festival followed by Living with the Land and seeing where some of the ingredients are grown for a few of the festival offerings. 

On our way out, we made a final stop for the Wine & Cheese pairing at Communicore Hall. Caymus Cab and Wisconsin cheese? Yes, please! 
 
Perks of being a #disneypassholder 

Have you been to the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival? What’s your favorite dish? And if you are a beer drinker, I have to admit there seemed to be more beer than wine offerings this year. 
#epcotfoodandwinefestival #disneyaddict #wisconsincheese
Some seasons end beautifully. 🥹🍷 Some seasons end beautifully. 🥹🍷
Thirty-two years ago today, I was 21 years old and Thirty-two years ago today, I was 21 years old and walked into the fire department to begin a job I could never have imagined would shape so much of my life.

I had recently left music school and trying to decide what to do with my life. I was getting married in two months after this photo was taken. I wasn’t a mother yet. I had no idea where life would take me, what I would survive, who I would love, who I would lose, or how many different versions of myself I would become.

I look at this young woman now and want to tell her so many things.

I’d tell her that life isn’t going to look anything like the picture she has in her head.

I’d tell her some of the people she thinks will always be there won’t be. Others she hasn’t even met yet will become part of the fabric of her life.

I’d tell her she will become a mother. A grandmother. A wife more than once. A writer. A traveler. A woman who will start over more times than she can imagine.

I’d tell her that the fire department she walked into that day thinking it was simply a job would become part of her identity and would teach her difficult life lessons. That she would spend years answering calls on people’s worst days, live through disasters she couldn’t yet comprehend, and discover that she was capable of far more than she knew.

And I’d probably tell her not to spend quite so much time worrying about whether she was doing life “right.”

Because there isn’t one right way.

This photograph has its own scars. It was pulled from the floodwaters after the 2016 flood in Baton Rouge. Somehow, it survived.

So did she.

Thirty-two years later, I don’t wish I could go back and change everything for her.

I think I’d just sit beside her for a minute and say:

Hold on, sweetheart.

You have absolutely no idea where this life is going to take you.

And what a life it is going to be.

(📸 D. Weimer: 📍BRFD Station 11)
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