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.
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.
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’m home. Ten days in Portugal with Collette, twenty new acquaintances, and absolutely nothing on my to-do list. No restaurant reservations to confirm. No driving routes to second-guess. No backup hotels bookmarked in case something didn’t feel right. For the first time in longer than I can remember, my only job was to show up. […]
“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 […]
Portugal looks small on a map. It is not small. That’s the first thing worth knowing before you start planning. The country is roughly the size of Indiana, which sounds manageable until you realize that the drive from the southern coast to the northern wine regions takes the better part of a day, and that’s […]
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 […]
