Tulum, a bohemian beach town on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, is popular for a reason. Beautiful blue-green water, excellent open-air restaurants (many owned by American expats), shipwreck-inspired hotels and a shopping scene that you might expect in Soho make it exotic, yet familiar. And it’s relatively easy to get to. Many American […]
I’ve stayed in edgy Shoreditch and aristocratic Kensington (I even lived in buzzy Oxford Circus for a semester in college), but the neighborhood I prefer to make home base when I visit these days is Holborn. Smack-dab in the middle of the sprawling metropolis, Holborn is like Midtown Manhattan making […]
I’m always proud to say Portland, Oregon is my hometown. It has changed tremendously since I was growing up in the 1980s and 90s. Back then it felt more like a town. Now, it’s a full-blown big city. Portlanders love to complain about the increased traffic and escalating housing prices, […]
When my family and I were visiting our favorite French region, Burgundy, in November 2017, we realized we had an extra night that we hadn’t made arrangements for. My husband and I had been interested in visiting Jura since drinking a bottle of Jean François Ganevat Côtes du Jura Chardonnay […]
If you’ve ever heard me talk about travel for even a minute, you’ll probably gather that food is one of the main reasons I do it. I often choose a restaurant I want to eat at somewhere in the world and then plan a whole trip around that. I was […]
Tuscany was one of the last places I visited with my grandmother, who passed away in the summer of 2017. We had a wonderful time there. We ate meals under the stars, shopped in the small towns and, of course, drank the bright and juicy red wines of the region. […]