We're perusing travel guides for today's Geo Quiz.

A former writer for the Lonely Planet books has published his OWN book on the industry.

It's called "Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?"

Thomas KohnstammThomas Kohnstamm says he accepted freebies and made up parts of the guides he penned.

Kohnstamm is quoted saying, "They didn't pay me enough to go to Colombia....I wrote the book in San Francisco."

And Colombia's the answer to our quiz today. Lonely Planet, which is partly owned by the BBC, says it's reviewing Kohnstamm's work. Meantime, we decided to do a reality check with a seasoned travel writer.

Ginger Otis contributed to the Lonely Planet guide, South America On a Shoestring. She says travel writing isn't always such a juicy assignment:

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