The view over Hanalei Bay on the north shore of Kauai must be one of the wondrous in the world. With a backdrop of the rugged mountains that form the Napali Coast, looking like a dragons’ back covered in green, it’s a setting that has...
I’m in the midst of a five-week Grand Tour that’s taking me the equivalent of 1.7 times around the globe, from Japan to London, Dublin and Wales, to Bali and then back to San Francisco. One of the great lessons I’ve re-learned on this trip...
Switzerland is well known for ski, but to some surprise, summer months have travelers promenading in shorts and T-shirts at the highest peaks well into September (and some years into October), marinating in the warm mountain air. Here’s a taste of the mountain area of Crans...
I flip to the first page of The Order of Days, a book by David Stuart about the intricacies of the Mayan calendar. This isn’t the sort of book I’d normally choose; save for a repeat viewing of the movie 2012, I ignored the end-of-days...
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...
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...
Two weeks ago the travel world was rocked by the news from Melbourne that iconic guidebook publisher Lonely Planet was laying off up to 80 editors and other staffers. My journey as a traveler coincides very closely with the journey of LP. ...
When I first looked over my itinerary for this trip to the Philippines, I wasn’t happy to read that each day I was going to visit a different rice terrace. In my mind, how different could they be? If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them...
Africa is a favorite subject for coffeetable tomes, but I have rarely come across as compelling a package of photographs and essays as Living Africa, by Steve Bloom. In more than 200 photographs, South African-born Bloom showcases a mind-expanding spectrum...