It’s July, which is exactly when the winter trips worth having start to book up. A case for winter travel planning in the summer, and why I’m chasing a cancellation to Antarctica while I’m at it.
Stories That Inspire the Way You Travel
I've been traveling since before I could walk. Literally. So when I write about a place, it's not from a brochure. It's from a terrace, a back road, a kitchen table, or a train I took because the timing was right. Some pieces are practical — the timing that matters, the question to ask before you book. Some are just stories I couldn't stop thinking about long enough to keep to myself. Pour yourself a coffee. Or wine. Probably wine.
Pull up a chair. This is where the stories live.
I have a confession that might surprise you, given what I do for a living. Some of the trips I think about most often weren’t to Portugal or Japan or the Amalfi Coast. They were within the United States. A long weekend somewhere I could drive to. A flight so short the ice in my […]
Portugal and I have history. Not the tourist kind. Not the “took a river cruise and loved the pastéis de nata” kind. I mean I just keep coming back, the way you return to a place that keeps showing you something new. Slow mornings in Lisbon cafés where nobody is in a hurry because the […]
If you’ve written off cruising based on a high school graduation trip, a casino boat, or the buffet-and-matching-lanyards version you’ve heard about, I get it. I was right there with you. But here’s what changed my mind: there are actually several completely different versions of cruising. And one of them might be exactly the trip […]
