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To some of us, sending a greeting card seems so 19th century. Oh sure, you send a greeting card for the end-of-the-year holidays, maybe. But...

I'm not an umbrella person, especially when I travel. It's just one more thing to carry and, most likely, lose. Since I don't ch...

 My friends joke about how I describe my ideal pancake: it should resemble a cloud and literally feel like it's floating off the plate. ...

Reykjavik is one of my favorite cities in the world: full of culture and striking views of mountains and sea, with an ever-present sense of...

Here today, gone tomorrow. That's what it sometimes feels like after uploading images to Instagram or Facebook. They  don't have any...

Not much wildlife made it into "Wild," the Reese Witherspoon movie based on Cheryl Strayed's solo, thousand-some-mile trek alo...

Just 25-minutes from St. Maarten by ferry, Anguilla is blessed with some three dozen white sand beaches. I visited 20 of 'em, beaches fo...

Just an hour drive from buzzing Lisbon is a region brimming with hilltop stone villages, long stretches of sandy beaches, vast expanses of p...

Who doesn't love islands? But I'm quite particular, favoring those that harken to an earlier time, when cars didn't exist as the...