Rocky Casale Rocky Casale is a Pittsburgh-based freelance journalist with more than a decade of experience covering travel. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Financial Times, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Fodor's Travel, Afar, Vogue, The Atlantic, Martha Stewart Living, Surface, Monocle, The Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper, and more. Rocky has lived in Italy and London but currently calls Pittsburgh home.• 10+ years of experience as a travel writer• Received a bachelor's degree in international political science from the University of California, Los Angeles• Studied abroad at the American University of Rome About Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure, a Dotdash Meredith Brand, is a top travel media brand with a mission to inform and inspire passionate travelers. Our expert team includes a network of hundreds of writers and photographers across the globe, all providing a local eye on the best places to stay, eat, and explore. We reach an audience that takes 76 million round trips annually, offering valuable travel tips, ideas and inspiration, and products you need to get you to your destination — whether it’s a small town or big city, beach or lake, national park or theme park, road trip, cruise, or long-haul flight, and everything in between. Learn more about us and our editorial process