Some travel destinations get all the glory! It seems that every tourist and their mother wants to visit London, Paris, and New York – but what about some of the more obscure place? Visiting lesser-known destinations offers the opportunity to travel without expectations or preconceived ideas and to connect with locals. Read more here.
TO SOME, slow travel means time. It means spending weeks or months in a place to really understand it. For me, slow travel is a frame of mind. In July, I joined my father for a week during his truck hauls to the US. I really wanted to go to Chicago, and luckily he was…
Illustrations: Aya Padrón A RECENT ROAD TRIP with my truck driver dad took me from Ontario, Canada, to Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, Indiana, and back over six days. I got to see a lot of small-town USA, but sitting through long stretches of highway left me feeling quite stiff. I started to think how I…
“C’EST PAS ÉVIDENT,” the locals and expats told me when I asked how to get more involved in local life: It’s not obvious, self-evident, or straightforward. It took me two trips to Martinique, one of the French overseas departments in the Caribbean, to figure out that simply being in a place didn’t necessarily mean that…
Cordial Shortly after All Saint’s Day in November, there is a seasonal abundance of oranges and mandarins on the island. For this reason Shrubb, an orange liqueur, is Martinique’s traditional Christmas beverage. You can buy a commercial bottle from any grocery store, but all the best ones are homemade. Macerate peels of oranges, mandarins, and…
