Practical guidance, destination inspiration, and honest advice for river cruises, active cultural journeys, expedition voyages, and custom group travel
Two women board flights on the same February morning. One lands in blistering sun. She kicks off her sandals and orders something with a paper umbrella in it before she has even found her chair on the sand. The other lands in cool mountain air. She wraps a scarf twice around her neck and follows the smell of fresh bread down a narrow street lined with tiles and lanterns. Both are about to have the best trip of their year. Neither one is wrong. If you have been searching for w
There is a moment that happens to almost everyone who embarks on Costa Rica culinary travel, and it is impossible to predict when it will find you. For some people it happens on a hillside coffee farm in Tarazu when the farmer hands them a ripe red coffee cherry and says simply, taste it. For others it happens in a home kitchen when a grandmother ties an apron around their waist and begins teaching them to press tortillas by hand without a single word of shared language betwe
