The United States has a geography problem in the way people talk about it. The good stuff, in the popular imagination, lives on the edges. New York. Miami. Los Angeles. San Francisco. Everything in between is flyover country — a term that says more about the traveler than the terrain. The terrain is spectacular. Between […]
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.
There is a particular kind of traveler — and I suspect you know one, or are one — who will spend months planning a trip to the south of France and drive past some of the most beautiful coastline in the world without stopping. The Northeast has a proximity problem. It’s too close to feel […]
I know the South. Born in Maryland, grew up in Virginia Beach, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. Spent most of my summers in Charleston. Family scattered across Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee and the Carolinas meant long drives to see them, which I didn’t mind because it usually meant stopping at a yet-to-be-discovered barbecue spot. I’ve also lived […]
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 […]
“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 […]
