My newest book is Day Trips from Los Angeles (Globe Pequot) to be published in July 2025!

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Maria Olia is a travel writer and essayist. She has written extensively about Boston and New England and has authored six travel books on the region including Off the Beaten Path Massachusetts, No Access Boston, New England’s Colonial Inns & Taverns: Centuries of Yankee Fare & Hospitality, Discovering Vintage Boston,  Day Trips New England, Insiders’ Guide to Massachusetts and the Little Black Book of Boston. Her articles and essays have appeared in National Geographic, the Boston Globe, Working Mother and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.