Erik Trinidad is an award-winning freelance travel + food lifestyle journalist and video content producer/creator. With his roots in backpacking and blogging on his acclaimed travelogue, “The Global Trip,” his decades-long passion for traveling the seven continents—and creating travel content—has led him to produce both video and written content for National Geographic Travel, Fodor’s Travel, and Lonely Planet. He’s been a guest travel correspondent for The Weather Channel, and worked on the 2024, 2025, and 2026 editions of the Fodor’s Travel New York City Guidebook.
He’s also scribed stories for many other outlets over the years, including: AAA‘s publications, Adventure.com, AFAR, Alcohol Professor, Artful Living, BBC Travel, The Chicago Tribune, Condé Nast Traveler, Cooking Channel, Discovery.com, Subaru’s Drive, Epicurious, Fatherly, Fathom, Food & Wine, Glamping.com, HI USA, InsideHook, Matador Network, MTA Away, N by Norwegian, The New York Post, The New Zealand Herald, Powder, Saveur, PADI’s Scuba Diving, Smithsonian Magazine, SnowBrains, Tasting Table, Thrillist Travel, TravelAge West, Travel + Leisure, Wine Enthusiast, VinePair, and The Vintner Project. (Click any of those outlets to link out to all his work there.)
In addition to being a talent of the written word, Erik is also a talent on screen, currently as the host of OFF TOUR with Erik Trinidad, a new spin on the travel show produced by Play Record TV, that follows the lives of local tour guides in their hometowns as they truly are, for better or for worse, as they do things around town when they’re not guiding tourists.
Independently, Erik has produced two travel web series. With an SUV he acquired during the pandemic, he created Car Glamping, a how-to on elevated car camping, featured in his piece for Newsweek. Plausibly Ridiculous is his award-winning, offbeat web show in which travel meets science, asking “questions about the world you didn’t even know you had.” Some episodes have been featured online by National Geographic, and on the Discovery Science Channel’s video round-up television show, Outrageous Acts of Science.
From 2009–2012, Erik, along his love for cooking, created the award-winning food humor blog, “Fancy Fast Food,” in which he meticulously transformed fast food items into haute cuisine-looking meals—without adding outside ingredients—inadvertently spearheading a trend that’s endured on social media since. Ultimately, this acclaimed, now retired blog was developed into the satirical cookbook that he authored, Fancy Fast Food: Ironic Recipes with No Bun Intended. As a result, his culinary intuition and irreverent food stylings made him an authority in the space, which led to a collaboration video with NASA, and TV appearances on morning shows, ABC News’ Nightline, Cooking Channel’s Food(ography), Rachael Ray, and the Emmy Award-winning Brain Games on the National Geographic Channel (three segments in season 4, episode 7 of the former docuseries, now on Disney+ ).
Outside of producing travel or food content, Erik’s talents as a motion graphics designer and video editor have contributed to three Times Square billboards, on-air promos for Al Jazeera America, and countless advertising campaigns for ad agencies, with clients that have included Levi’s, Apple, Nintendo, Kraft, Samsung, Airbus, and American Express.
Please email all inquiries to Erik.Trinidad@gmail.com.
