Gap year, sabbatical, vacation, press trip, exploration -- the label doesn’t matter.  Every travel adventure promises personal change. It’s virtually impossible to travel to a new place – where you’ll be surrounded by new people and a new culture -- and be completely...

Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference. This has certainly been true in my travel-writing career. Over several years, I made hundreds of little baby steps as I put one foot in front of the other to follow the path to my dream to become a...

One of my very first published pieces was the result of a river trip I had taken on my own, just for fun.  This vacation on a boat was down the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon, one of my favorite stretches to float, and consisted of two days of flat water (aka:...