These days I spend much of my time speaking around the world about travel. Wherever I am, one of the questions I’m invariably asked is, “What’s the best place to travel with children?” Of course, there are multiple factors to consider in choosing the best family destination: How old are your children? What are you […]

“Here, take a look,” whispered Ricardo. Peeking through the lens, I was six years old again. There was the bird I had been yearning to see, a quetzal as resplendent as I had read about—a vivid dream from my distant past. He sat on a tree branch, preening his feathers, cocking his head and looking […]

When a glacier retreats, it leaves behind a land scrubbed clean of life. On barren rocks and humped moraines of leftover rocky debris there is no soil — only a fresh slate upon which to build a new world. From the 1300s to the 1850s, Earth experienced a Little Ice Age. Glaciers advanced on terrain […]