A newsletter about travel after kids.
It may be that I reside in Manhattan, arguably the most overwhelming metropolis on Earth in which to live. It could be the unending, alluring way in which travel invigorates the need to see and do more. Whatever the reason may be, gradually but conspicuously, the travel experiences that leave the most lasting affect on me are increasing those in smaller and lesser-known places as opposed to major capitals or commercially visible locals.
Read MoreThe road trip to Germany started out like a dry joke with a recognizable punch line: what happens when a couple with German last names drives through Denmark to get to the Northern part of Germany? You get Kellner (translation: “waiter”) and Klein (translation: “small”) lost in translation and lost in an random German village.
Read MoreInitial impressions of Copenhagen were the remarkable cleanliness, the smoothly run public transportation, the distinctly influenced architecture and wow, the good food. Over a long weekend we embarked on the Grand Tour of Copenhagen and then took our own walking tour, one that skipped many of the touristy spots and instead focused on emphatically personal experiences.
Read MoreYears and years of friends’ Birthright trips to Israel filtered through social media showed jaunts to the hyper-saline Dead Sea. Consuming the images of bright blue sky and eerily buoyant water, it hadn’t quite occurred to me that if one were to follow the Sea up and around they would encounter the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and, eventually, run right into the environmentally diverse country of Jordan.
Read MoreThe 1.5 hour drive between Dubai and Abu Dhabi reveals a vast desert landscape and with a sprinkling of seemingly random corporate headquarters alongside kitschy theme parks. Well, random only until one recalls the free trade zone that entices businesses to lay roots here and the persistent fabricated entertainment that is elemental to the UAE and it all starts to make sense.
Read MoreA recent Editor's Letter in Conde Nast Traveler closed with a quotation from an article within the edition: "This is why I travel: to demythologize fear of the unknown." It is also, in part, why I travel: to feel closer to people who are surface-level different from myself and to improve my cultural understanding to the point of relating to others around the world.
Read MoreUntil a recent trip to Jordan's Wadi Rum desert in March of 2018, Isla Ometepe in Nicaragua was the most remote place I had ever been. This island formed by two volcanoes (active Concepción and nonactive Maderas) holds a certain allure.The course of natural history that created this place feels so unlikely to have occurred, two massive volcanoes rising out of Lake Nicaragua to form an island, that getting to spend time here holds a bit of unexpected magic.
Read MorePetra, Wadi Rum & the Dead Sea in Jordan. March 2018
Read MoreOur plan of staying just a single night in Laguna de Apoyo would have quickly been foiled if we did not have a Treehouse Airbnb waiting with our name on it in our next stop in Nicaragua. By the time dinner rolled around on the evening we arrived, we had already cancelled a pre-planned volcano outing in favor of spending more time on this pristine, quiet lake. How excited we were to learn that we loved Apoyo is connected to, frankly, how little we initially expected from it.
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