The where is the easy part. What makes or breaks a multigenerational trip is the money, the pace, and the details nobody puts in the group chat — here’s how to handle all three.
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.
Discover why European winter travel is my favorite season, from Salzburg’s Christmas markets to alpine villages like Kitzbühel and Heidelberg.
An Antarctica cruise isn’t one trip, it’s a dozen different ones depending on the ship and the route. Here’s how I’d help you choose, and why the booking window is more serious than almost anywhere on earth.
If you’re wondering where to travel in January, look south. New Zealand, Patagonia, South Africa, and Australia are in full summer while we’re in our coldest, greyest stretch, and the good lodges fill months ahead.
It is late June. The grills are fired up, the sunscreen is stocked up, and the firecrackers are on standby for the Fourth. Summer 2026. It’s here. And I’m already thinking about summer 2027. That’s not a sales pitch. It’s just the reality of how summer travel works, especially for Europe. The short version: Europe […]
“We’re thinking about a group tour.” It’s one of the more common ways a conversation with me begins, and it’s always a good starting point. Just not quite a complete one. Because group tour covers an enormous amount of ground — from a fifty-person motorcoach rolling through five countries in eight days to twenty travelers […]
August has a reputation problem. Ask most seasoned travelers what they think about August travel and you’ll hear some version of the same answer: too crowded, too expensive, too hot, too much. The airports are full of families in matching t-shirts. The hotels charge what they like because they can. Every good restaurant in every […]
