How to Improve Travel Writing Skills

Traveling to experience new scenery and cultures always gets my blood boiling. I want to dash - nay, have to dash - and find a way to put this new experience into words, so others can also enjoy it. Then, I hammer out a rough draft and come back to it a few days later merely to be underwhelmed. Not only does it not feel like seeing the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok for the first time, it's sentimental and (cough, cough) boring. All travel writers know this feeling. Yet, that's part of the char...