Off-the-Beaten-Path Travel

Originally published in 2010 You don’t have to be a wine lover to enjoy a hike along Switzerland’s Valais Wine Trail, which links the winemaking villages of Salgesch and Sierre. (Although [...]

  Originally posted October 1, 2014 On the last  weekend in September, Ken and I headed up to our favorite mountain area: Crested Butte, Colorado. We’ve been there for powder days in winter [...]

(Originally posted in  2009) Life on a sustainable Ecoventura cruise in the Galápagos Islands is never dull: every day our group made two shore excursions to see exotic birds, strange reptiles [...]

AUGUST 2023 WILDFIRE UPDATE: My heart goes out to the people of Maui who are impacted by the fires. Donations can be made to the Maui Strong Fund. As the sun starts to dip toward the horizon on [...]