“You’ve been all over, and it’s been all over you…” U2, Beautiful Day

Tiffany Hawk is a writer and travel-industry insider who has earned that role. Some say she’s running away, others blame it on her Aquarian moon, but whatever it is, she was born to move, and move and move (17 homes, two continents, nine cities, 11 years). After her first two years as a flight attendant, she filled her passport, literally, and had 48 more pages squeezed in. She’s still traveling and has reviewed hundreds of restaurants and hotels - her most memorable stays include a hostel in Hong Kong, the nearby Metropole Hotel (think SARS), One Aldwych, in London and a penthouse on the Crystal Serenity where she’d like to spend the rest of her life.

Five stars, wine dinners, bunk beds, coackroaches. It’s all material. Just ask her exes and her parents. How many girls can say they’ve been introduced to a date’s doll? In fact, she has so much to say about herself (how egotistical!), she’s written a novel inspired by her flight attendant years. Read an amusing excerpt here, and if you’re willing to risk ruining the ending, and remembering 9/11, find a darker excerpt here.

Tiffany does do more than flit around the world and write about it. From her current home bases in Orange County and the Bay Area, she has served as travel editor at Gayot Publications and Coast Magazine, where she still writes a monthly travel column. She is also currently the editor-in-chief of Preferred Destinations Magazine. While handcuffed to a desk in those positions, she became an accidental expert on Southern California, and has covered everything in the neighborhood from fuel cells and international adoptions to private jets and Real Housewives to an Elvis impersonator, a mannequin dresser, and a Bigfoot hunter. You can also read her work in Westways and on men.style.com (the online home of GQ and Details magazines).

The only thing Tiffany loves more than writing is flying — her editor at globorati.com diagnosed and labeled her condition: airport pervert. Apparently the condition is valuable as she’s now their official air pervert at large. What do you expect from a girl whose first memory is on an airplane? (18-months-old, MSP-LAX)