Growing up in Kansas, Skip Kaltenheuser was tuned to travel by a traveling salesman father's pedal to the metal vacations. He extended his reach with travel writing, and efforts such as supervising elections and doing special projects. Skip's favorite travels are now with one or both kids, now teens, neither indicted despite living in Washington, DC their entire lives.

A member of the National Press Club international correspondents and photography committees, Skip has a diverse subject mix including politics, law, business and travel. His work, sometimes informed by a legal background, has appeared in well over a hundred different magazines and newspapers worldwide. Of late, many of his features are for "Global Insight", the magazine of the International Bar Association, for which he often comments on Washington dysfunction. Skip is a principle with the online Natural Traveler, and frequently appears in an inflight in China, as well as many other publications, adhering to his strict criteria of anyone who will have him.

Although he accepts no responsibility for any mischief in Washington, his fondness for carnival across different cultures comes from a keen understanding of the need for redemption and a clean slate.