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Wanderlust: Travels Here & There

Wanderlust: Travels Here & There

The idea for a book took a long time. Maybe eight years or more. I had such a vast collection of images and writings that it seemed like a book was the perfect publishing outlet. I had used a Nixon FE for decades and that was the camera I used on a trip to Bali and...

Below the Border

Below the Border

Lunch with a friend recently revealed that he had never been outside the United States and had little desire to travel. “How different people are,” I thought, as I love to travel and have always made an effort to find my way to an airport. Indeed, travel is not...

Spend The Holidays in Hawaii: Wailea Beach Resort

Spend The Holidays in Hawaii: Wailea Beach Resort

There's a song and phrase rooted in Hawaii that makes a yearly return: "Mele Kalikimaka!" If you didn't know, "Mele Kalikimaka" means "Merry Christmas," and there's a good reason some visitors will be saying and/or singing the song this holiday season. In what shocked...

Lake Tahoe Sojourn

Lake Tahoe Sojourn

In the Sierra Nevada Mountains lies the third-deepest lake in America and the 10th-deepest in the world, Lake Tahoe. It is a glistening gemstone in the wilderness filled with clear water and alpine trees. This is a lake that is claimed by both Californai and Neveda,...

Elevate Your Rideshare Experience With Alto

Elevate Your Rideshare Experience With Alto

If there's anything more inconvenient than scorching temperatures this year, it's using rideshare apps and services that are unreliable, inconsistent, and expensive while keeping you waiting—one canceled ride after another—in the heat. If this is your headache of a...

Sojourns

Sojourns

As summer approaches we begin to ask...what will travel be like this summer?   An estimated 42.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend, a 7% increase over 2022, according to a new forecast released by AAA on Monday....

Up the Nile: Luxury Cruise

Up the Nile: Luxury Cruise

There are many kinds of vacations—the relaxing island vacation, the adventutuous trip up the mountains of Peru, the majestic splendor of old churches throughout Europe, and then there is the Middle East. A term coined in the 1850s by a British India official, it is...

Palm Springs: City of Night

Palm Springs: City of Night

Fun Facts: Palm Springs has the largest concentration of midcentury modern residential architecture in the world, showcased every February during the Modernism Week celebration. With more than 70,000 pools, Greater Palm Springs can boast that it has more pools per...

Mexico’s Blue Lagoon: Holbox

Mexico’s Blue Lagoon: Holbox

    The Mexican Rivera, which lies to the far west and dips into the majestic blue seas of the Caribbean is a famous tourist destination for Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel and many smaller islands that dot the landscape. We can soon add the quieter destination...