Beth Blair (beth-blair.com) is an award-winning freelance writer. She is a former flight attendant manager, and as the mother of three, she has focused on family travel, airlines, aviation, and lifestyle topics. Currently, she is based in Minnesota and is the author of The Unofficial Guide to Mall of America (Unofficial Guides, 2016), the first consumer guidebook ever written on the mall. She also authored Break into Travel Writing (Hodder-Stoughton and McGraw-Hill, 2012). Online she is co-owner of TheVacationGals.com. She was the 2013 Shape Magazine Weight Loss Diary columnist.