Category: Travel

My recent trip to London, England, was one of the easiest trips to Europe I have ever planned. With everything in English, reservations for hotels and restaurants, using the Underground and asking for direction is so simple. If you’re at …

Recently I received a press release form Wagstaff Worldwide that did not go to the trash bin but peeked my interest. “The Intercontinental Chicago earned the Green Seal Silver Certificate for Eco-friendly initiatives and highly efficient energy use as well …

I was excited! I had been invited to go down to Mexico to visit my best friend Sarah’s family farm. I called my grown nephew Adam to see if he would be interested in taking an excursion to Mexico. The …

Photography by Yuri Krasov Traveling to Chicago in winter, however silly it sounds from a Californian point of view, has its perks. It’s a real snow wonderland out there, not glittered cotton puffs in a surfboard store window. The most …

Acapulco, Cancun, Iztapa-Zihuatanejo, Tijuana, Guadalajara and Mazatlan are cities in Mexico that I have visited in the past 10 years. An invitation to spend four days in Puerto Vallarta allowed me to visit “the friendliest city in the world” according …

I consider myself an upright law-abiding citizen. Except for one minor skirmish with the law as a teenager sneaking into the IRT subway in Brooklyn. A friend and I, squeezing through the turnstile on one fare, were snared by two …

Within moments of being in a mall bombarded with different music from all sides, I experience sensory overload and start searching for the nearest exit. Whales can’t escape the noise pollution in their world so easily. The effects of sonar …

Some trips are about the destination, and as destinations go, Mexico’s Tulúm, a walled city of 800-year-old Mayan ruins, is a worthy goal. Other trips might be about what you do while you’re there: SCUBA diving, museum bouncing, shopping. There …

Have you ever read those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books? Jeremy David is living one. In August he is hopping on a plane to Europe, and from there you are in control. Tell him where to go and what to …

If you travel a lot for business like I do, you know the scenario. You’re in some vast airport or train station, bored out of your skull, waiting for a connection. Like some corporate hermit crab, you are dragging half …