John Henderson has traveled to 114 countries and has written travel stories from more than half of them. On Jan. 5, 2014 he retired after nearly 40 years as a sportswriter, the last 23 with The Denver Post, and moved to Rome Jan. 10. It was a one-way ticket.
In June he published his memoir, “The Cappuccino Chronicles: An American Journalist’s Decade in Rome.”
He returned to Rome where he spent 2001-03 as a freelance travel writer and wrote a book about his new life in a foreign country, “An American Gladiator in Rome: Finding the Eternal Truth in the Infernal City.”
At The Denver Post, he wrote a traveling food column for eight years called A Moveable Feast. He is originally from Eugene, Oregon, and is a journalism graduate of the University of Oregon.