Category: Travel

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 …

Some say it’s one of the oldest professions in Oaxaca, yet it garners little if any respect from most of the population notwithstanding the tradition and ceremony that has been its trademark for generations: the chivero, or slayer and preparer …

I have often found that the funniest experience come to us in life by just observing our fellow humans and being aware of our surroundings. Recently I was sat on the open decks outside the buffet cafe on board a …

Friends unexpectedly received from me a postcard from Manaus, Brazil, of a scantily dressed Indian energetically dancing in a jungle clearing. The card read: Don’t I look great in my thong and tan? Ran out of money up the Amazon …