By: Madeline Weinfield It’s rare to find yourself, mid-afternoon, already dreaming of tomorrow’s breakfast. But it’s also rare to wake to a morning meal lovingly created by a James Beard Award winning pastry chef. But such is the a.m. routine at the North Fork Table & Inn, a hideaway on the eastern edge of Long…
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Beyond Assumptions: Why Slovakia is Worth Getting to Know
photo via flickr By : Sarah Donnan Imagine, just for a minute, that you are a member of the Slovakian ice-hockey team. The nation watches you play in hope and excitement: ice hockey is the national sport and, as of 2017, your team are ranked tenth in the world. Also in 2017, you travel to…
Five Tips to Travel More Responsibly This Summer
Photo via flickr By: Abigail Faires “Responsible tourism is about making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit, in that order,” writes Harold Goodwin, Founder and Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. It requires us, as travelers, to make better, more informed decisions everyday, so that…
How Balinese Surfers are Catching Waves and Fish
By: Ali Almond At the time of day when the inky west Bali ocean folds in bands of tangerine, a brawny body adorned by tattoos paddles out on his surfboard. He has a bundle of plastic containers and fishing line nestled under his neck. He smokes a clove cigarette. Somehow he keeps it dry enough to smoke while…
Alaska: The Failure of Words is the Beginning of Truth
By : Angela Noel Lawson Four-hundred-year-old ice fell into the sea. A crack like thunder preceded the calving. Then shards of ice cascaded down the face of the glacier and crashed into Disenchantment Bay, Alaska. The largest calving glacier in North America, Hubbard is advancing into the ocean. This slow march into the water didn’t…
Saint Louis’s Verve
By: Eva Mulej The city is still flickering from the day’s heat when we finally manage to escape from the verve of Saint Louis, a city on the northwest coast of Senegal. It stretches from the mainland, over the Feidherbe Bridge, to the small island with beautiful colonial architecture and ends at the narrow peninsula…
What Travel Can Teach Us About Minimalism
By : Ashley Mingesz While basking in warm December sun at the top of a pyramid in Uxmal, Mexico, I mused at a familiar feeling I have every time I find myself in a beautiful new place. I’m amazed by how few material possessions I require to be fulfilled when they aren’t available to me….
Fact: We Find What We’re Looking For
By : Angela Noel Lawson Vegas reminds me of a little black dress I once owned. The dress served its purpose. Coupled with a pair of very swanky heels, it attracted the attention I craved. Wearing it felt like I’d stepped into a different world, one I wouldn’t inhabit nine-to-five. But one day, when I…
How to Speak Howler: A Trip to the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize
By : John Garry When I reached Burrell Boom in the Cayo District of Belize, I thought I’d heard every possible language spoken in Central America. Belizeans flip between English, Creole, Spanish, and dialects of Mayan with minimal effort—an impressive fact for an unenlightened monolingual American like myself. I expected this; I read about it…
