We tend to treat Mediterranean islands like the reward at the end of a European trip. But the right island can hold the whole thing: history, food, culture, landscape, and sea. Here’s the case for making the island the trip.

The trips people put off are often the ones that matter most. On the real benefits of multigenerational travel, the finite window for getting everyone together, and why “someday” may be closer than you think.

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.

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 […]