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This year I made 13 round-trip airplane flights and buzzed down highways during 10 road trips, all while chasing travel stories. I stepped foot in six foreign countries – Panama, Costa Rica, the Marshall Islands, Thailand, Ecuador, and Mexico. That’s one more than...

Let 2023 go down as the year I shat my pants in the Four Seasons Bangkok. Sure, a lot of other stuff happened this year - some of it good, some of it not so good. I detached the ACL in my knee, for example, and did other assorted bodily damage while snow skiing in...

I’ll be lucky if the postcard I mailed from the Galapagos Islands last week makes it to its intended destination in a year – or ever. It’s part of the charm of tiny Post Office Bay on Floreana Island, where for more than 200 years people have been leaving letters,...

Snowflakes are flying in Colorado, y’all. I sat down to coffee with a group of representatives from three Colorado ski resorts this week, who reminded me that now’s the time to buy lift tickets. “The earlier you can sort out plans, the cheaper it’s going to be,”...