“I’m a writer. If I stop writing, I’m nothing.“Wilbur Smith There are a few writing gigs that make the average, would-be writer smile and stare off into space. To be a travel writer is to be free of the bounds of the everyday and live the life of an explorer. Or so we think as we ponder becoming a travel writer. The facts are that I am not becoming a travel writer, not really. Not in the sense that I am a freelance writing getting paid to recount my mild adventures as I travel about the country. I still think…