6 Summer Wilderness Destinations You Must Discover
Summer is the perfect time to explore some crazy places you’ve never been to. And what’s better than going out into the wilderness and spending some quality time with Mother Nature? If you’re feeling adventurous, here are some...
John Mountain (LL.B., MBA) 1956-2018
from June 18th, 2018 I am absolutely speechless these days. Sadness, pain, grief, disbelief. It is with such a broken heart that I must announce the recent passing of my husband, co-founder, partner of 27 years and chief...
Long Haul Flights: Some Survival Tips
Is it just me, or sitting for ten or more hours crammed between airplane seats among a crowd of equally cranky kids and grownups cannot possibly be the most incredible beginning to a holiday? I assume I’m not alone in this...
A Personal Revelation
As many of you may remember, last year on May 22nd, we adopted a handsome barn cat from my best friend Lucy, in part to add a bit of a distraction for the next six months of dealing with John’s recent cancer diagnosis and...
A Day of Dance in Bali
We awake to a simple but beautifully presented breakfast of fresh fruit, freshly squeezed orange and papaya juice and eggs, toast, and banana pancakes. We eat alfresco, with views of the morning rice field stretching out in front...
Wreck Dive: USS Liberty: Tulamben, Bali
We are picked up at 7:00 this morning at our hotel by Sophie, a charming young Frenchwoman, who owns a dive shop, just up the street called Safari Bali We are off to Tulamben, on the northeast coast, to dive. But more...
The Detox Diaries: Day Three
Ow, Ow, Ow. I wake with a low grade thumping detox headache reminiscent of my cold-turkey attempt at stopping coffee a couple of years ago. I’m not sure that it isn’t from last night’s strange absence of my old friend, ‘Two...
How’s My Head and How’s My Heart?
Postscript: I sit here, typing away at my computer, some four years after my initial diagnosis of depression. That December 2015 was perhaps one of the most painful and difficult times I have ever experienced, lived through,...
Extended Travel Burnout
I was surfing the web recently and a 2014 Travel + Leisure article 15 Signs You May Have Travel Burnout caught my eye and made me ponder my own extended travel and the potential for burnout and in particular, our 2004 trip around...
Dreaming of Monaco
Nice is nice but location Monaco beckons. We met Claudia and her husband Marco when we were in Mykonos and they have asked us to lunch aboard their yacht which happens to be anchored in Monaco. This is a complete and total...