Adventures

Has there ever been a city more contradictory than New York? It’s exciting and grinding. It’s beautiful and dirty. Its’ sights are world famous, but there is always something to surprise you. It’s an amalgamation made up of fiercely unfettered parts. One can live in Manhattan for an entire lifetime and not ever pierce her […]

In many ways, the Big Island is the most family friendly of the Hawaiian chain. Simply by the nature of its size it has more offerings to explore —at a total land area of 4,028 square miles, it is larger than all the other Hawaiian Islands combined. It has all the outdoor activities people associate […]

Traveling alone can be a tricky thing. In theory, there are no limits to what you can do because there isn’t anyone else to please, but it’s still easy to get swept up in other people’s must-see recommendations and blindly follow the crowds. But after years of solo trips, I’ve found that my best adventures […]

Over a period of 300 plus years, from approximately 1526 to 1867, an excess of 12 million captured men, women, and children from Africa were put on ships and sent to the Americas. It’s a little-known fact that the vast majority—over 90 percent—of enslaved Africans were sent to the Caribbean and South America. British-occupied North […]

A visit to Lotusland is not casual endeavor. Cradled in a residential neighborhood—albeit one of incredible wealth and exclusivity—Ganna Walska Lotusland is a non-profit 37 acre botanical garden that visitors must make reservations for at least a month in advance.