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05/24/2026

This is my favorite view in the world. The cabin before anyone else settles in. My ritual is ruthlessly minimal: compression socks on before boarding (and yes, the airline socks layered right over them — they’re getting dirty anyway), gum, downloaded books, and my beloved cozy — blanket and eye mask in one — which also holds my earbuds so I can fall asleep to NPR. No jarring ads, just voices worth listening to. A few Santa Montefiore novels. Some Pedro Almodóvar — because I’m heading to Spain and there is no better way to arrive. He is, simply, everything. Business class cabins keep getting bigger. This one was more than half the plane. Some people settle in and explore every amenity. I board, I cover, I disappear.

05/22/2026

New York City raised me. And if you know, you know, that's not just biography. Its orientation.

There's a particular kind of confidence the city instills in you. A pace. A standard. An insistence that ideas be sharp, delivery be precise, and mediocrity be left at the door.

Standing in Times Square last winter, I felt all of it come back at once.

Stephen Colbert ends his run at The Late Show — another chapter closing on a tradition of late-night television that has always been, at its core, a New York art form. Wit as currency. Timing, well, as everything.

The city keeps moving. It always does. But the eras it produces leave a mark.

Grateful to have been shaped by this one. And Colbert will be missed. Very much missed.

05/22/2026

I may be a late arrival to the Anne Scully fan club, but as one of her friends said to me, better late than never.

Because Anne has something I can only describe as Irish magic. Part storyteller, part strategist, part absolute force of nature. She doesn't just teach you the business — she has this rare gift of expanding how you see yourself and what you believe is possible for you.

After even one conversation with her, you leave clearer, braver, and more yourself than you were before.

She is more than a teacher. She is a mentor, a guide, and a true friend.
If I had to describe Anne in three words: Visionary. Fearless. Transformational.

And the most beautiful part? Those aren't just words about her. They're what she calls out in everyone around her.

I'm so lucky to call her a friend and mentor. She embodies the very pinnacle of the travel industry.

What an Irish blessing she is to this industry and to every life she has touched!

Happy Birthday, Anne. Wishing you every joy you have given the rest of us. 🎂✨

05/22/2026

Have you ever wanted to sail somewhere that doesn't feel like anywhere else on earth?

HX Expeditions has been running polar and remote voyages since 1896 — making them the oldest expedition cruise company still operating today. Their ships go to Antarctica, Greenland, the Galápagos, and the Arctic, and they bring working scientists on board: real researchers doing real fieldwork in the places you're exploring together.

They're also the most responsible operator in their category — the only expedition line with a third-party verified ESG report, and a consistent top-ranker on Friends of the Earth's annual Cruise Ship Report Card.

Right now, a limited number of 2026 sailings are available at reduced fares — Galápagos, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Antarctica — starting from ~$6,700 per person. Book an Antarctica departure by June 30 and receive up to $1,000 per person toward return flights.

These cabins won't last. Drop a comment or send me a message if any of these have been on your list.

05/14/2026

This is just incredible!

610K likes, 31K comments. "Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk"

05/10/2026

Every traveler has a first memory of the world feeling vast.

Mine was 1970. I was four.

Somewhere on the Jersey Shore, bundled against the wind in my mother’s arms. (My first actual journey was six months earlier — California, before I could even walk.)

But this is the one I carry.

She held on tighter than the wind could pull. She always did.

I didn’t know then that travel would become my life’s work — only that the world felt enormous and safe at the same time. That feeling never left.

It’s what I try to give every client I serve.

Happy Mother’s Day to the woman who first showed me the world.

05/09/2026

438 acres of Hampshire countryside, a 500-tree orchard, a working biodynamic farm, and a bookshelf stocked with Agatha Christie novels.

Heckfield Place is not trying to be a hotel in the conventional sense, and that's exactly the point.

The Georgian estate is 45 rooms, all different, set in land that's been tended for centuries. The spa, The Bothy by Wildsmith, uses ingredients grown on the property. Dinner comes largely from the farm.

There's a private cinema, walled gardens, an open-water lake if you're brave enough, and picnic hampers if you'd rather keep your feet dry.

Forty minutes from Heathrow. A world away from everything else.

05/08/2026

Chicago keeps this one quiet, and I think that’s almost criminal.

The Preston Bradley Hall dome at the Chicago Cultural Center — once the city’s main public library, completed in 1897 — is one of the most breathtaking Tiffany glass installations in the world. Free to enter. Rarely crowded. Completely extraordinary.

Look closely and you’ll find the twelve signs of the zodiac embedded in the ring of medallions. Their presence here wasn’t decorative whimsy — in the Gilded Age, the zodiac represented the ordering of all human knowledge under the sky. A library wasn’t just a building. It was a cosmology.

This is what Chicago does that no one tells you about. The city hides its masterpieces in plain sight, then lets you discover them alone.

Hidden gem.

📍 Chicago Cultural Center | 78 E Washington St | Free admission