Travel Planning

There are places in the world that feel like they were designed for celebration. The Amalfi Coast is one of them. Dramatic cliffs plunging into water so blue it seems almost impossible, whitewashed villages clinging to hillsides above the sea, the scent of lemon groves drifting through warm afternoon air — this is a coastline […]

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a family when they travel together. Not silence — families are rarely silent — but a different quality of presence. The emails stop. The school schedules disappear. The endless logistics of everyday life fall away, and what’s left is something simpler and more essential: just […]

Some trips change you. Our seven-day journey through Ireland with three generations of family was one of them. We were a group of seven — my husband Steve, our ten-year-old Henry, my mom, her husband Bob, and two of our closest family friends, Gary and Laureen — and from the literary streets of Dublin to […]