If you’re finally, cautiously starting to make trip plans again, you may well find yourself thinking about how to travel differently in a postpandemic world. More
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Flying Solo: Why I Love Traveling Alone
Several years back, during a solitary trip to a remote New England island, I found myself in a fairly hairy situation. More
Old Birds
Who ever said the end of youth meant the end of adventure? More
Welcome to the Jungle
Though less forbidding than it once was, Papua New Guinea remains one of the planet’s wildest places. An off-the-grid guide for travelers who still like their creature comforts.
In Sri Lanka, A Beachfront Resort Sets the Bar High
Rates
From $255 for low-season doubles and $435 for private villas. (High-season rates are $390 and $614.) More
Can Nassau Rise Again?
Recent developments might mean a new heyday for the island in the Bahamas.
Once upon a time, when Caribbean vacations were only taken by a lucky few, Nassau, in the Bahamas, was considered cool. More
Beach Banquet Bingo
In Bondi Beach, Sydney’s famed playground, epicurean restauranteurs are outshining the surfers.
Ask any random smattering of people—Australian or not—what they know about the Sydney suburb of Bondi, and odds are they’ll nearly all mention “the beach.” More
Step Away From the Lion
It’s not easy to play soccer with a full-grown lion, but Kevin Richardson manages. More
Lining Up (Early) for Boutique Pastries in Connecticut
At 7:49 on a recent Sunday morning, six people had already lined up in the sweltering heat outside Hen & Heifer, a small pastry shop near the Guilford Town Green. The doors would not open until 8 a.m. More
Authentic Mexican Food Amid a Nuevo-Taco Craze
As I’ve told friends for years, if I ever get to heaven, I hope to find that it’s a parking lot, right off a great surf-break beach, lined with taco trucks. If there’s one cuisine I could happily munch into eternity, it’s Mexican street food. More
Close Encounters of the Wild Kind in Namibia’s Desert
Through my camera lens, the lions looked startlingly close: five young brothers with silky manes, sprawled on a dune that matched the tawny color of their bodies; and a sleek older lioness, sitting high above on a rocky promontory. More
See the Creative Side of Aspen
Powder season and the X Games get all the hype, but there’s a thriving artistic side to this Rocky Mountain town year round.
Crowd Surfing
There aren’t enough waves for everyone who wants to surf. More
Mexico’s Los Cabos Resort Bounces Back
A year after being battered by a hurricane, the Baja hot spot is buzzing again.
When I first fell for Los Cabos—the resort area that stretches for about 20 miles between the towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula—it was for all the usual reasons. More
Chow Down in Charleston
With a slew of innovative chefs and stylish inns for both sleeping and noshing, the graceful South Carolina city is a bona fide dining destination. More
Hey! You! Get Off My Island!
How To Have Thailand’s Most Idyllic Islands (Almost) To Yourself
The Fantasy
My dream of visiting Thailand’s islands was as vivid as it was specific: I would walk along an empty beach, its sand as white and fine as sifted flour, beneath soaring rock walls. I would wade into a cerulean sea so clear that I could make out the chips in my toenail polish. And I would be profoundly, blissfully alone.
A Dot of Green in the Ocean Blue
When our dive boat captain cut the engine, just east of the island of Mayreau, we lurched for a few minutes in the cyan waters as we prepared to jump overboard. More
Great New American Food Halls
As anyone who has wandered the centuries-old epicurean aisles of Harrods in London or Le Bon Marché in Paris knows, food halls are not a new phenomenon. More
A Swim With Mexico’s Massive Whale Sharks
In the waters off the Yucatán Peninsula, travelers can get up close to the largest sharks in the world.
The Big Idea: Truly Tiny Hotels
Not long ago, staying at a hotel with fewer than 10 rooms usually meant one thing: bedding down at a guesthouse. More
Where to Eat in Istria
Long hyped as the next Tuscany, Croatia’s northerly Istrian peninsula shares vibrant coasts, pastoral vineyards and a mellow growing climate with its Italian neighbor. But the region has a culinary culture all its own. More
On Horseback, Giving Back
When the camel cart came lurching around a bend and headed straight for us—wooden wheels clattering, turbaned drivers blaring Rajasthani music from a boombox—I was determined to keep my cool. More
New Hope for Puerto Rico’s Strays
Pets Alive works to provide sustainable solutions for Puerto Rico’s “satos”
If you’ve been to Puerto Rico, you’ve surely seen them: stray dogs the locals call satos. You can spot them everywhere, trotting in the heat alongside roads from San Juan to Mayagüez More
Stylish Summer Resorts
Whether you’re after sweeping beaches or mountain trails, barbecues or Michelin-starred restaurants, these chic resorts offer quintessential summertime pleasures. More
Rebuilding Haiti, and Its Tourism
“Bucket!” a deep, Creole-inflected voice sang up to me. “BucketBucketBucket!”
From where I stood, partway up a steep, crumbling dirt hillside on the south coast of Haiti, the owner of the voice was invisible. More
36 Hours in Nantucket
Board of Education
Upon observing wave-riding Hawaiians in 1907, Jack London rhapsodized that surfing was “a royal sport for the natural kings of the earth.” More
Redefining the Luxury Safari Lodge
There are bats hanging over my bed. More
On Thin Ice With Churchill’s Polar Bears
Empty, snow-covered tundra stretches for hundreds of miles in every direction. An icy wind is blowing; a thickly batted quilt of cloud covers the sky. But I am trying mightily to jam open a frost-streaked window, brutal weather be damned. More
The Wave Not Taken
What’s hardest about middle age are the regrets. When you suddenly, alarmingly recognize that your life’s half over, what’s jarring isn’t just the realization that you’ll never have the chance to do everything you’ve planned. More
Giving Up the Garden
“Hey!” a high-pitched voice called down to me. I stopped raking and looked up: The owner of the voice was a boy, maybe five or six, who was sitting on the fire escape of the apartment two floors above mine. More
The Virtual Teacher
Like many writing teachers, I am privy to secrets. I’ve read stories about lost love and illicit affairs, addiction, shame, family dysfunction of every stripe. More
A Pug’s Life
“My God, this is marvelous!” cried Robert Grayson, as a herd of snuffling, yapping pugs swirled around his ankles. “It’s like some sort of French farce!” More
Hollywood Squares
At Imad Khachan’s shop, chess is serious. So what’s David Lee Roth doing there? More
So You Want an MFA?
MFA in kvetching: the truth about writing programs
When I look back on the two years I spent as a graduate writing student in New York, I wish I could say that I spent most of that time writing. In fact, what I recall spending a much greater amount of time doing was worrying.
The Good Neighbor
My friends all warned me about first-floor apartments. They told me nightmare stories about thundering footsteps and stereo noise from above, wailing babies, squeaky bedsprings. But as soon as I saw the street-level studio in Park Slope, I was a goner. More
A College’s New Course
One afternoon during my first semester at Simon’s Rock College, a classmate and I were hanging out in the crammed dorm room of one of our sophomore friends, a girl named Alex. More
Across America, Sardine-Style
“Okay, you guys!” Walter shouted to the 12 of us who had gathered behind the back end of the bus. “One…two…THREE!” More
