“This looks like a resort,” a friend said, as we drove past the town square in Sierra Madre, California.

My visits to three small towns in Mexico left me utterly enchanted as they took me back in time.

Home in Southern California, I was on a mission to find Emmental or Emmentaler – aka Swiss cheese with the holes.

Featured on TraveLife, my story on Claremont, CA, "City of trees and PhDs."

Not all roads lead to Paso Robles wine country in California’s Central Coast. But in 2015, two events would lure me back.

Hungarian wines could be a household word today, but two world wars and communist rule forced a major pause.

In another fantastic interview, “Wisdom from the Black Expat – Podcaster, Traveler, and Bar Owner – Carl Hill,”

I am deeply honored to receive awards from the 2021 International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association Annual Photo Contest

Texas is the country’s fifth largest wine producing state after California, Washington, New York, and Oregon and the fifth largest in number

Sissinghurst Castle Garden, one of Britain’s most famous gardens and among the most influential plant collections in the world

I see why American impressionist painter Theodore Clement Steele, fell for the scenery and lighting of the southern countryside

the product that is a staple in just about every American kitchen, including mine. “Tapatio is the nickname for a person from Guadalajara.”

...if there’s a destination ripe for these times, it’s Columbus, Indiana aka “Athens of the Prairie.” The unassuming midwestern town

GUADALAJARA, MEXICO — My guide Gus Melor and I are thoroughly entertained watching Roberto, a diminutive but energetic gardener, move like a

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What an incredible awakening it was. In the lobby of my hotel in Buenos Aires, I flipped through pages of coffee table books filled with...

Preface While rummaging through boxes looking for a death certificate, I found “A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to Gatwick Airport,”...

On the summit of Corviglia Mountain overlooking the Swiss village of St. Moritz, I’m greeted with the bluest of skies, a smiling sun and...

In the central plains of Boeotia, Greece, between Athens and the Corinthian Gulf I found the muse in Thiva – or Thebes as the Greeks know...

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When my small tour group reached Xylocastro, a seaside village of 5,800 inhabitants on the Corinthian Gulf in Greece, I was already...

Vancouver was ablaze in fall’s vivid palette. Maple leaves -- pink, yellow, orange, red, and burgundy -- dangled from tree branches and...

Northern England, North Country, and The North are geographical nicknames for England’s upper half that is a world away from the...

The Alps -- Europe’s highest and longest mountain range -- stretches over Italy, France, Monaco, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein,...

My professor friend had just returned from visiting the Greek islands but didn’t have enough time to see Delphi as she had hoped. I was...

There is only one Idyllwild in the world, according to Google and during a weekend visit with friends at their home in this bucolic...

It was a Zen moment as I slurped the hot clear broth, our first course at Prata Man, a dive of a Singaporean restaurant just minutes from...

Commit to your turns…Pedal…Smooth and round…Remember, we’re the boss of our skis -- they’re not the boss of us! The drills became my...

It felt like the top of the world while I stood at the foot of Mt. Parnassus in Delphi 2,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of...

Zurich, Switzerland, is the “Gateway to Europe,” pulsating as one of the world’s busiest rail stations and the densest transportation...

With just one night in Athens before embarking on a road trip around northern Greece, my challenge was what to do with such little time....

Attending Chinese New Year in Richmond, British Columbia, turned into a rite of passage. My introduction to the multi-day celebration,...

“Mountain huts are not meant for long holidays,” said Tina, who works part-time at Alpe Rompiago, an alpine farmhouse in Ticino,...

In two days I ascended two mountains in the heart of Switzerland and never broke a sweat -- thanks to late 19th century visionaries who...

The Orient Express’ maiden journey between Paris and Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) in 1833 was a game-changer for travel on the...

Below the radar, but on the beaten path, Cambria on the Golden State’s central coast is not a beach town, but a jewel of a seaside...

With the seventh largest public plaza in the world, a meandering river walk, world-class museums, an outrageous culinary scene, home to...

Wine country in England? Say what? When I learned about winemaking in Hampshire, an hour’s train ride south of London that’s producing...

While exploring London and Winchester, England’s ancient capital an hour’s train ride south of the city, I wandered onto the “eaten” path...

The 30-ish woman I had met in Los Angeles grinned with nostalgia when I mentioned my recent visit to Wisconsin. So, I got it when she...