Besides travel, my other love is radio. I started in the business at 15 years old, and had my first real radio show when I was just 16. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was the full-time night DJ at the local radio station. I went on to become a…
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40 Countries in one day! Well, kind of… When a friend of mine told me about a special weekend in DC where a ton of foreign embassies open their doors to the public, I immediately sprang into action to investigate! Turns out, the annual Passport DC was just weeks away. I booked my ticket and…
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I will never forget the morning I had the best breakfast of my life. I knew on the very first bite. It was like French toast mixed with crack and I was the fiend. Between bites I was probably annoying everyone at my table with my explanations of surprise and awe with how amazing this…
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Why I Refuse to Ever Use Travelocity Again…and Why You Should Too I was probably one of Travelocity’s most loyal customers. I’ve been with them since the 90s; since the concept of online travel was new. I’ve booked hundreds, yes hundreds of trips on Travelocity–from flights to hotels to rental cars. Faithfully. Travelocity even sent…
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People often ask me the standard questions about world travel, like “What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?” I’ve answered that one a million times. But I really love when someone asks me a really good question…a different question…and I get to tell a story that I haven’t shared much. This week I got one…
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I had a three-night vacation planned at Atlantis-Bahamas; I was looking forward to relaxing and actually “staying put” in one country for more than two days. But I just couldn’t do it; by the second day in Nassau I was furiously trying to work out flights to and from Jamaica during my tight vacation window….
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I ended up in Kingston for a night after I decided to abort a three-day weekend vacation in Nassau. I couldn’t sit still, and knowing that Jamaica and St. Vincent were the only two countries left in the Americas that I needed to see before I turn 40 (and my 40th birthday is only nine…
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