Tom traded in his hometown St. Louis Cardinals' ball cap for a stylish Borsalino and now hangs his cappello in Vicenza, the City of Palladio, in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy; thus, his nom de plume for Traveling Boy is appropriately The Palladian Traveler.

A veteran print and broadcast journalist for over four decades, with well-worn passports that have taken him to 47 countries and counting, Tom explains why he's attracted to the Old World charm of the Bel Paese: "I'm inspired by the beauty I find in all things that are very, very old, and reliving history by meandering along cobblestone streets that were laid down over a thousand years ago, looking up and marveling at what occupies the space still today, really gets my Vespa running."

Tom has a great eye behind the camera and is a graphic and entertaining storyteller. We're happy to have The Palladian Traveler in the Traveling Boy fold, and look forward to Tom's dispatches filed from his creative hideaway in Vicenza, Italy.

Note: Tom is a credentialed journalist with the International Travel Writers Alliance (ITWA), a contributor to the online publication ItalianNotebook.com based in Rome, and hosts his own eclectic travel-food&wine-photography blog The Palladian Traveler.