California-based JOE YOGERST first explored Venice in the winter of 1986 and over the years has experienced the city in every season. His writing has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, CNN Travel, BBC Travel, the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and many other publications. Yogerst has worked on more than a dozen National Geographic book projects including Long Road South, his Lowell Thomas Award-winning account of a three-month journey along the Pan American Highway between Texas and Argentina. Australian travel writer and photographer GILLIAN PRICE has been a resident of waterlogged Venice for over 35 years - and never takes it for granted. She spends much of the year exploring Italy on foot and with public transport for her many walking guidebooks.