When I was getting ready for my recent trip to Curaçao, most of my friends and family asked: “Where’s that?” Or they said: “Oh, as in blue curaçao, the liqueur?”...
Posted by | February 18, 2011
The idea of home and exile has been at the forefront of my thinking. I guess that happens to a footloose drifter who imposes a travel embargo on herself. After...
Posted by | January 25, 2011
I have an affliction: a serious case of wanderlust. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to travel, I can almost hear you say. And, true, there isn’t. But when travel...
Posted by | January 6, 2011
At a recent loft party in Brooklyn, someone asked me a question about my travel writer’s life: “Is there a place in the world that you definitely don’t ever want...
Posted by | December 30, 2010
As 2010 nears its end, I reflect upon the year just passed. Things I’ve learned, people I’ve met, fun I've had, roads taken and dreams realized. As an homage to...
Posted by | December 18, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I spent four days on one of the Caribbean’s most exclusive islands, St Barths. On a magazine assignment to cover a classic luxury hotel, one...
Posted by | December 9, 2010
I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve overdosed on travel. If somebody had told me that would happen a few years ago, I would have called them flat-out crazy. How...
Posted by | November 28, 2010
A few days ago, my husband posted the following photograph that I took on our trip to Angola on his Facebook page. The title he gave it was: Hope. For...
Posted by | November 15, 2010
It's that time of year, to make a difference in somebody's life by participating in the annual Passports with Purpose fundraiser. Last year, we raised 30K to build a school...
Posted by | November 5, 2010
I write this from an islet in the middle of Lake Nicaragua, as the rain pours, an aftermath of a tropical storm that swept Central America the last few days....
