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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...
A Little-Known Florida Destination is Calling Californians this Summer
Cowritten by Anthony C. Stafford How would you complete the following statement? "California has Catalina Island, while Florida has..." If you thought "The Keys," you're not necessarily wrong, but The Keys are more well known than where we're going. Rather, our area...
Here’s A Secret Worth Knowing: Calamigos Guest Ranch and Beach Club
There's a little known secret hidden away in Southern California, and it isn't Catalina Island. This gem is instead tucked away in Malibu, providing some of the best resort experiences and activities that you won't find anywhere else. Nestled in the stunning hillside...
Below the Border
Escape to Baja: A Press Junket to Cabo Over lunch recently, a friend admitted he’d never left the U.S.—and had no real desire to. I nodded, surprised. I’ve always loved to travel. Airports, delays, cramped seats, overpriced snacks—sure, it’s a grind. But that feeling...
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
A Weekend at Lake Tahoe: Lodge Life, Lakeside Yoga, and a Hint of Luxury In the Sierra Nevada Mountains lies Lake Tahoe—the third-deepest lake in the U.S. and the 10th-deepest in the world. Claimed by both California and Nevada, it’s a shimmering, alpine jewel with...
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
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
Not Your Average Vacation: Cruising the Nile Vacations come in many flavors—the island escape, the mountain trek, the European cathedral circuit. And then there’s the Middle East. Coined in the 1850s by a British India official, the term “Middle East” spans 18...
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
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...