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Travel Experts Choose One Trip to Give for the Holidays

“In a frenetic world tethered by chronic connectivity, Antarctica is the last, best wilderness antidote. I can think of no greater gift to give to my family than a chance to experience such an intense sense of the wild.” – Wendy Redal, Natural Habitat Adventures ...

Tracking Herds of the Sky: Terns, Bats and Dragonflies

Traveling from chilly Midwestern winds to the warm Southern sun, or sometimes even swapping hemispheres, humans migrate to change the feel of their lives, perhaps following a natural instinct as the animals do. Flocks of reports are available on winged migrations, and there seem to...

Taking the Trouble Out of Tipping

To help you solve some of your tipping troubles on your next trip, our Adventure Collection member companies offer these guidelines for showing your appreciation to the people you count on in the places where you go....

Eight Great Holiday Gifts for Travelers

Shopping for a long list of loved ones can get tiresome fast, especially if you don’t have any fresh ideas. I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of giving – and receiving! – sweaters, socks, and soap. Do you have...

The New Salt Lake City

It was 1994 when I first visited Salt Lake City, when the city gave fresh meaning to the term “sleepy,” locked in a time warp redolent of 1950’s America. But what gave it panache was its setting, ringed with snow-covered mountains in a valley that...

The Magic of the Mundane

On a journey in Italy three Aprils ago, I took a train from Venice to Verona. As the suburbs trailed away, we moved into exquisite countryside of green rolling hills, terracotta-roofed houses, and spiring green cypress trees. At one point...

Frances Mayes: Devil in a Blue Apron

Lonely Planet’s new anthology, “A Fork in the Road,” presents 34 stories that explore the intersection of travel, food, and cultural epiphany. Each of the pieces in the book, writes editor James Oseland in his introduction, “says something ineffable about how we process and remember...

Report from Namibia and the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit

I have just returned from Namibia, the Africa that I never knew existed, where I attended the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS). This 10th gathering of the ATWS was a mosh pit of ideas and creative energy emanating from tour operators, destination specialists, journalists,...