Richard Arghiris

Prior to becoming a travel writer, Richard Arghiris found employment in a variety of colourful, if mostly terminal, work roles. He was, by turns, a croupier on a seedy Mediterranean cruiseship, an usher in a crumbling seafront cinema, a machine operator for a brutal Dutch factory, a clerk, a waiter, a chef, and extremely briefly, a double-glazing salesman. His past lives include bouts in London, Brighton, Amsterdam and at sea. Once Richard realized his chequered employment history was entirely consistent with a career in writing, he swapped his working boots for walking boots and took off on the road armed with a notebook and pen. He has since become a professional nomad, travelling the margins of Central America in search of wild stories and wilder adventures. Richard writes and researches content for a broad range of media including guidebooks, magazines, newspapers, documentaries and websites. His blog, www.interamericanhighway.com, features everything from edgy street photography to serious feature articles about human and indigenous rights. He is currently somewhere between Mexico and Panama and has no way of returning home, even if he wanted to.