Every time I talk to someone who is planning a trip to Mexico, I hear the same thing: “I just want to find a great beach, but there are SO many options. I don’t even know where to start.” I get it. Mexico has over 9,000 kilometers of coastline. There are beaches that get you…
I still remember the first time someone casually said to me, “You should go to the Amazon.” I laughed it off. The Amazon felt like the kind of place that belonged to documentary filmmakers, scientists, or the rare explorer who had trained for it. Not someone like me, a girl from New York who had…
I grew up in New York. I worked here as a certified sightseeing guide, standing on the top deck of double-decker buses pointing at skyscrapers, watching hundreds of first-timers press their faces against cold glass with their eyes wide open. And I’ll tell you what I noticed: the people who had the best time were…
I grew up in New York City. My version of nature was Central Park, a patch of green surrounded on all sides by taxi horns and skyscrapers. So the first time I saw a national park in any real sense, through photographs, research, and the stories of solo travelers I connected with on the road,…