My absolute favorite summertime destination in the U.S. is Martha’s Vineyard. Just four short hours via car and ferry from my home in Connecticut, this quintessentially quaint New England island comes to life in the three short months of summer, when you can enjoy all the outdoorsy activities there is no way you can handle [...]

Summer has settled into New England, coating us with blankets of wet, sticky air and temperatures that cause people to complain it’s too hot. Not me – I love it. Typically summertime weather here hits in July. To southern New England’s delight this year, though, summer began two months early, in May. Party on. To [...]

When we travel close to home, most of us are after a quick and comfortable get-away to a familiar and beloved spot. Human nature draws us time and again to places we like, locations where we feel at home – even when we’re trying to get away from home. Although we may make a major [...]

Travel equals exploring the unknown and the exciting. Visting regions that differ from our own means witnessing new ways of life, navigating unknown languages, acclimating to different diets and coping without the comforts of home. Flying off and landing on foreign ground – this is travel. Most of the time, anyway. What about traveling to [...]

Escaping from daily life’s reality and routine into a cornucopia of newness and wonder is one of the many universal appeals of travel. Almost everyone on earth likes the excitement of new experiences. All of our hearts temporarily halt when we gaze with our own eyes at cathedrals, oceans and castles we’ve previously only seen [...]

Spring fever has begun to travel across my mind. As I sit locked inside – safe, warm and dry from the cold rain that’s beat against my house for three days, my mind travels back to just last week, a week packed with days that begged me to go outside. Bicycle riding in the woods [...]