Out in front of our hotel along the river Aare, we mounted our two-wheeled kick scooters and set out across the bridge into the medieval center of the city of Bern. Giggling like Pee-wee Herman and giddy with exhilaration, we … Read More
Imagine scores of butterflies fluttering around your hands and face. Resplendent butterflies in indigo and orange, and others in red and black, they land on your fingers and forearms, feasting on the salt from your skin as you walk. In … Read More
“Iguazú” means “big water” in the language of the ancients – and apparently, when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt glimpsed the massive Argentine waterfalls, she murmured, “Oh, poor Niagara.” … Read More
“More dry than the Sahara,” that’s what our Lima Tours guide kept repeating to us as we followed her intrepid lead as she happily urged us higher and higher up the Huaca Pucllana. A pre-Incan pyramid of adobe bricks, Huaca … Read More
As the second largest desert city on the planet (after Cairo, Egypt), Lima has a subtropical climate but is mild and comfortable, thanks to its proximity to the ocean. … Read More
Islands generate interiority – and so perhaps it’s not surprising that once-remote isles have been discovered through literature. Published in 1947, James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific turned the Solomon Islands into a Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical, and … Read More
Located more than two thousand miles from the American continent, Rapa Nui (created three million years ago from three volcanoes) is the easternmost point of the so-called Polynesian triangle, formed with New Zealand and Hawaii. … Read More
Imagine a travel day that commences with the sunrise and sees you flying at 38,000 feet through choppy air, the plane rolling just enough to remind you anew of the wonder of flight – Is this your Icarus moment? – … Read More
