Thursday, July 30th, 2015
My trip through Utah was to visit portions of The Grand Staircase, the world’s most well preserved sequence of sedimentary rock formed by ancient lakes, inland seas, deserts and forests.
The rock layers span 100 miles and represent more than …
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Cubans love to dance – in the streets, in the squares, and in performance halls.
They literally grow up dancing, as evidenced by the ballet students practicing along the Malacón at midnight, a gaggle of teenagers entertaining the crowds in …
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Cuba has a vibrant arts culture and lucky for me my recent tour focused on exploring the island’s local art scene. In fact, one of the trip highlights is the access we had—visiting the artists in their homes, seeing their …
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Surprised that the Bay of Pigs is actually an idyllic white sand beach? I was. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it sure wasn’t this little slice of paradise.
The reality is that Playa Girón (as it’s known …
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
During one of my free days in Havana, I headed to Regla, a tiny island in the middle of Havana’s harbor, known as the center of Afro-Cuban religions. (Hat tip to Mr. Greenwald for suggesting the visit.)
I mainly came …
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
As a city of more than 2 million and the largest city in the Caribbean, the lure of Havana is hard to capture. I think it has to do with the duality of the place—the old next to the newly …
Friday, February 13th, 2015
When I think of the West Indies, I think rum, palm trees, and steel drum bands—but not politics. Wrong! Trinidad & Tobago is a totally political place, evidenced by its indigenous Calypso music with its stinging lyrics.
I wanted to …
Friday, January 30th, 2015
I previously made the mistake of lumping all Caribbean Islands together, but they of course all have their individual personalities – especially Trinidad & Tobago! What a fun, warm, welcoming culture!
As the southern-most islands in the chain, lying a …
Friday, December 19th, 2014
I just read the book Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (not too bad…) which just sort of fueled my already fairly heated desire to see the butterfly migration that occurs every year in Mexico.
But I just found out that …
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Last month I drove from the tip of Florida to northern California – more than 3,000 miles across the U.S., The road trip through 9 states took me 6 days, most of it traveling on the Interstate Highway System, otherwise …