This drive is a breathtaking blur of lush hills, red barns, crystalline streams, gaudy wildflowers, freshly-stocked honor stands, legendary swim-holing, and ice cream samples in the FlavoRoom.
Sedona Surprises
Sedona is many things. But whatever likely flashes across your screen when you imagine “Arizona,” Sedona isn’t that.
Quick Tips on Five Baltic-Region Capitals, Part Two: A Nouveau Trove in Riga
The Latvian capital boasts arguably the densest concentration of Art Nouveau structures anywhere, the most impressive examples of which can be seen within an area of a few square blocks.
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French Polynesia, Part One: Lunch with Sam and Manu on Mo’orea
In the crystalline lagoon off Mo’orea’s western shore, a Maori fisherman shares with me the craft he learned from his grandfather.
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Three Days on Bermuda
Near the top of Bermuda’s many advantages as a foreign, passport-stamping, beautifully-beached destination is the fact that it’s a mere two-hour flight from several east-coast cities.
Cruising Colorado’s San Juan Skyway in the Time of Corona
I thought that I’d discovered this 233-mile loop in southwest Colorado and, with it, the perfect cure for cabin fever. Turns out, someone else had already discovered it, and it was pretty close to perfect.
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Paris: If You Have Just Twelve Hours, Love Chocolate and Hate Nuance
If you find yourself with a single day in Paris and want to alienate your hoity toity tourism purism friends while offending francophiles the world over, consider this plan.
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The Amtrak Acela from Manhattan to Baltimore Sure Beats Spooning an Ice Pack
Beauty, comfort, quiet and downtown-to-downtown convenience, as well as a wise and witty conductor, made me wonder why I’d considered any other option for this short leg.
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Mmmm Meals: Las Vegas
A brief homage (and perhaps a welcome, rather than tone-deaf, bit of escapism) to the days when Las Vegas was open, and we could eat in restaurants.
Heavenly Naxos
Naxos is the largest of Greek’s myth-drenched Cyclades Islands but not the most famous, its neighbors Santorini and Mykonos, for example, attracting more attention and considerably more traffic. But you’ll be glad if your itinerary, like that of mythical princess Ariadne, brings you here.
