Visiting the English Coast While trekking around England the past couple of weeks, I’ve stayed in two seaside towns looking after small dogs: a pair of dachshunds (a miniature smooth...

Life in the Arctic Adrenaline floods your body as you throw back the blankets of animal furs and climb into the cold air.  It’s 3am.  The sounds of drumbeats and...

Summer in Alaska? A house sitter opportunity titled ‘Summer in Alaska?‘ caught my eye.  Is that a rhetorical question?  I applied and was accepted, securing a trip to Alaska after...

Relief has arrived after 10 years of merciless drought in Southwestern Colorado.  This was visible last week driving through lush hillsides and neon green valleys from central Colorado en route...

What does a metal flower, a cemetery, and Dante’s Inferno all have in common?  The answer:  Buenos Aires.  A blooming 105-foot stainless steel flower comes to life every morning at...

Buenos Aires is immediately charming.  It feels warm, accessible, clean… and incredibly familiar.  It looks like Paris, it looks like New York City, it feels like Rome and Madrid.  Yet...

You know those mornings when you wake up, stretch, smile at the sun, breath in the clean air… and then notice a tarantula the size of a dessert dish about...

Last week, I returned to Lima from a 4-day Inca Trail trek to Machu Picchu.  It was an excursion my friend and I had been planning for over a year. ...

NOT AN ADDICT Like most people, I’ve been a devoted coffee drinker for years.  I became a convert one night in college after writing a 20-page thesis paper in 12...

Welcome to Bogotá!  You’re staying in one of Forbes’ Top Destinations of 2017 for 2 days in the Andes, elevation 8,700ft.  Where do you start?  I’ve compiled a 48 hour schedule...