Andy Murdock is the co-founder and editor of The Statesider US Travel Newsletter, and former editor for Lonely Planet and Airbnb. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Vox, BBC Travel, and more. Find Andy exploring California's backroads, 50 yards back on the trail because he stopped to look at an interesting plant, ogling American-made string instruments, or on Twitter @andy_murdock.