Just off Highway 89 between Kanab and Big Water, a completely unassuming pullout hides one of southern Utah’s most photogenic little secrets. Belly of the Dragon is a short, man made tunnel carved through soft Utah sandstone, originally built as…
Some trips are for relaxing. Others genuinely shift something in how you see the world, and doing that alongside someone you love tends to leave a mark that lasts well beyond the vacation itself. A life changing trip usually isn’t…
A great weekend getaway doesn’t need a flight across the country or a hotel budget that rivals a week long vacation. Some of the best short trips are the ones within a few hours of home, or a quick, cheap…
Frigiliana has won enough “prettiest village in Spain” polls and local awards over the years that the title has basically stuck, and once you’re standing at the top of its old Moorish quarter looking down over a maze of blindingly…
Santorini and Mykonos get all the attention, and with it, all the inflated prices that come from being featured on every travel list for the last decade. The good news is that Greece has dozens of other islands offering the…
A real vacation doesn’t require draining your savings account. Some of the best trips within the US happen in cities and towns that never show up on the pricier bucket lists, places where a comfortable hotel room, a genuinely good…
Some of the most rewarding trips in this country happen in places that never quite make it onto a mainstream bucket list. Not because they’re any less beautiful than the famous national parks and coastal towns everyone already knows, but…
The things that make a trip frustrating are rarely the big things. It’s almost never the flight itself or the destination. It’s the tangled charger cable at the bottom of your bag, the toiletry bottle that leaked into everything else,…
The United States is, geographically speaking, absurd. It contains subtropical islands, alpine glaciers, red rock deserts, temperate rainforests, and a coastline that touches three different oceans, all within the same set of borders. No single road trip, no matter how…
A good family hotel can completely change the feel of a vacation. When the kids are excited about the hotel itself, you do not have to fill every hour with sightseeing and activities just to keep everyone entertained. Some of…