Isenberg has authored multiple chapters for forthcoming Lonely Planet books about Costa Rica. He has also contributed to the Lonely Planet website.

An avid cyclist, Isenberg contributes regularly to Momentum Magazine, including bicycle travel guides to communities around the world.Isenberg has contributed to Trivago Magazine, the online travel and hospitality publication based in Germany. His first story was a guide to Providence, RI.For two years, Isenberg contributed regular travel stories to The Tico Times, where he also serves as a staff writer, photojournalist, and videographer. Here is one excerpt.

Isenberg has written frequently for E: The Environmental Magazine, including travel stories about Pennsylvania, Laos and Aruba. See all stories here.

For Mental_Floss, Isenberg wrote about the Tunnel That Saved Bosnia, a little-known passage that rescued Sarajevo from annihilation.

Nature Landings is the in-flight magazine of NatureAir, an airline servicing Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Isenberg writes about food, entertainment, and travel for the magazine.

For The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Isenberg has contributed a variety of pieces, including an essay about the Balkans, an acclaimed Op-Ed about recasting Pittsburgh as a “granola town,” a meditation on the Port Authority bus system, and a poem about driving in Pittsburgh.

Isenberg has contributed regular travelogues, photography and videos to the San Diego Reader, for the paper’s “Gather No Moss” column. You can read all his articles here.

For the Monitor, Isenberg contributed a travelogue about the Bay of Fundy and a poem about Osaka, Japan.

The Smart Set is Drexel University’s award-winning online magazine. Isenberg contributed several essays on Central America.

Read Isenberg’s story about finding hotels in Pittsburgh.

Among other essays for Hippocampus, Isenberg wrote about the “guachiman” parking attendants in San Jose.