Share The Article When the morning frost hardens the grass in my backyard here in Louisville, my mind shifts straight to the Caribbean. The sky turns a dull grey, the wind cuts through your jacket, and all you want is a warm beach. I spend hours looking at flight maps trying to find an escape. […]
Share The Article Planning a Caribbean trip seems foolproof. You book a flight, throw swim trunks in a bag, and assume the rest will work itself out. It won’t. Liz and I have spent a big chunk of our lives in the Caribbean. We’ve made every rookie mistake in the book. We’ve been stranded without […]
Share The Article We’ve all seen the horror scenes coming out of France and Italy this week, and we’re just as horrified as you. Balaclava-clad rioters setting fire to a historic French town hall, smashing their way into Milan’s landmark Galleria, pillaging shops and terrorizing merchants—and reassuring as a tougher response might sound, even the […]
Share The Article Forget your Romes, Parises, Londons of the world: if you’re keen on a European getaway in 2027, but you don’t actually fancy dodging literal dumpster fires and Haussmann boulevards overtaken by violent protests, you might want to give the traditional European city circuit a miss. Lesser-known European cities that have been historically […]
Share The Article Forget Rome and its jam-packed Trastevere, Naples with its graffiti-splattered center, and Milan’s cathedral-anchored main square, where you practically have to wade through an indiscernible mass of bodies. If you’re looking to experience Italy without the crowds, and at normal prices, Ferrara is where you should be headed. Home to a stunning […]
Share The Article As the motorized water taxi glided to a halt and I stepped out onto the white sand, the noise and stress of the modern world disappeared. I looked out over a horizon dotted with tiny palm-fringed islands, and realized I’d found a completely untouched corner of the Caribbean. There are no mega-resort […]
Share The Article I totally understand the urge to hold onto summer for as long as humanly possible. When the temperature starts dropping at home, my first reaction is to start looking at flight maps. I want to find a place where the sun is still bright, the ocean water is still warm enough for […]
Share The Article Most Caribbean marketing is purely fantasy. The brochures show you empty sand and local culture. You book the ticket, step off the plane, and get dropped off at a mega-resort with two thousand other people. Is that travel? While you’re technically in a new place, it doesn’t feel authentic. If you want […]
Share The Article Europe has a bad habit of turning its best mountains into crowded theme parks. But if you want to actually touch the high alpine dirt and earn your views, you need to look right where the French and Italian borders collide. The Chamonix Valley sits in the shadow of the highest peak […]
Share The Article You don’t expect a high alpine mountain town to feel like a proper beach vacation, but the trip I just took blew that assumption out of the water. Mountain towns usually sell you on flannel shirts, wood cabins, and hiding from the cold next to a fire. South Lake Tahoe completely flips […]