When dreaming about a family trip to Europe, most people don’t seriously consider Iceland. Maybe Iceland has an image problem? In 900 AD, a Scandinavian settler came up with the chilly moniker after spending a winter on the island. Had he...
When it comes to traveling, kids go through a handful of distinct stages. As babies, they’re in the purse stage, because they’re so darned portable. When they hit the toddler years, they enter the Sherpa stage (so named for the staggering amount of...
A small backpack can be a comfortable, hands-free way to carry personal items while traveling. Unfortunately, it can be an easy target for thieves, too. Despite what I tell my children, I don’t really have eyes in the back of my head. Besides...
Whoever said, "Give children the gift of boredom," obviously never took a road trip with my kids. Sometimes the bickering starts before we're even out of the driveway. While they can be placated for a few hours with movies and handheld video games, they...
Ready for some irony? I’m a travel writer who’s afraid to fly. A few years ago, it got so bad that I decided to take a fear of flying course. While I’m still not overjoyed to travel 600 mph...
What’s the only thing better than embarking upon an amazing adventure? Embarking upon an amazing adventure with lots of great wine. That’s why this week we’re proud to feature four Adventure Collection journeys to some of the world’s most fabled wine producing regions…Salud! ...
I have been traveling to Rio de Janeiro for nearly 30 years, and could wax poetic about it for longer than you’d care to listen. But the defining moment came a few years ago, on a balmy Sunday night in Ipanema. I had just stepped...
Candace Rose Rardon is an American writer, photographer and artist who sketches as she travels. These sketches, combined with the stories behind them, poignantly portray those moments of encounter and illumination that become the stepping stones of adventure, inner and outer. We are extremely pleased...
Ah fall. The colorful leaves, the roar of a Saturday afternoon football crowd, kids getting settled in for a brand new school year. For many, it’s understandably a quiet and relaxing time, sandwiched as it is between the long hot summer break and the cold,...
People have been lamenting the degradation of chosen places ever since Adam turned to Eve and said, ‘You think this is Paradise? You should have been here yesterday.’ It’s the Paradise Principle: Every great place you ever go was oh-so-much-better...