“Happy travelers are all alike; every unhappy traveler is unhappy in his or her own way.” That’s my version of Leo Tolstoy’s famous quote about families. I believe that travelers are happy because they love five things about traveling that stay the same whether they’re on a package holiday in Majorca or trekking Machu Picchu. […]

My husband and I just spent three days and four nights on the fabulous Caribbean island of St. John without our six-month-old baby. We stayed at the ultra-luxe Caneel Bay resort for a wedding while he stayed home in NYC with my parents. The main reason why we didn’t bring him was because of the […]

For the past six weeks, I’ve been navigating uncharted territory: Babyland. I had my first child at the end of November and it’s been quite a trip. In fact, having a baby reminds me of traveling for four reasons. 1. I’m totally jetlagged. I do get sleep, but it’s not during the hours that I’m […]

I had a fantastic year of travel for 2010. Did I go everywhere I wanted to? Of course not. I can always rely on my friends to make me jealous with their fabulous trips both near (Manchester, VT) and far (Singapore). Here are 13 trips I wish I took this year… The 2010 Winter Olympics […]

2010 was a fantastic year of travel for me, with a two-week trip to Alaska as the clear highlight. Like last year, choosing my top 10 travel moments wasn’t easy but it did make me feel very thankful for such an exciting opportunities. I feel like every trip I took deserved its own top 10, […]

Babymoon is a funny word. While a honeymoon is something that you take after the wedding with your honey, a babymoon is something that you take before the baby with your honey. It’s also just a fancy name for a trip taken during your second trimester, which the best time for pregnant women to travel because any […]

Confession: I was 14 and 15 weeks pregnant when I took my Alaska Princess cruise in June. Even though my doctor said it was a totally safe endeavor, I still worried about whether it was a good idea to take a cruise while expecting. Well, I had a fantastic time and I’m now convinced that a […]

When I worked at Zagat, I often heard about the Slow Food movement, which emphasizes seasonal, locally produced fare eaten leisurely in the company of others (as opposed to going to your local fast-food drive-through and wolfing it down alone in your car). And, I’m aware of the Slow Travel movement, which would certainly disapprove […]

I love traveling so much that I usually don’t find it stressful. As long as everything is going perfectly accordingly to plan, what’s there to worry about? But if it doesn’t… OK, I guess travel can be a little stressful sometimes, from the trip planning to the packing to returning home and worrying about when […]

It's hard for me to believe that I didn't have an iPhone until this past November. (I was a Blackberry gal for two years before that.) Now I'm one of those annoying iPhone evangelists — always showing it off, trying to convince people to get one and insisting that you adapt to the touchscreen keyboard […]