“I think I just saw a zebra!” said my 16-year-old son. To be clear, we were not on an African safari, nor at a zoo. In fact, we were traveling along California’s Highway 1. This is one of many funny and fond memories we have of one of our family’s all-time favorite spring break trips […]

For most of my four decades as a traveler, I have been a cultural quester more than a wildlife wanderer. I’ve lived in Paris, Athens, Tokyo, and San Francisco, places where you’re much more likely to encounter a legion of latte-sippers than a leap of leopards. And when I’ve ventured farther afield, I’ve tended toward […]

We stepped through the door of the stone Glenfarclas warehouse into a gust of whisky-scented air. They call it the angel’s share—the portion of whisky that evaporates from its cask into the atmosphere. I filled my enraptured nose and listened for a rustling of wings in the rafters. Later, around the distillery’s tasting table with […]