The waiters walk past you, glancing slightly and then continuing on to the next table. They ignore you, but not consciously or even maliciously – they think you’re waiting for your guest. The other people around me are being served coffee and juice, some have bread baskets and other tables are dining on hot eggs [...]

Here’s another good thing about traveling solo: when you travel, you only have to pack for one. That means no one’s last-minute travel items in your carry-on, no dirty laundry bags for two, no extra pairs of shoes taking up valuable space in your luggage. I leave for Riveria Maya, Mexico, in two days to [...]

If there’s one thing I really enjoy about traveling, it’s spending the quality time with my friends while on the road. More often than not I get the typical, ‘rough life’ response from people when they learn I’m a travel writer, but those who have traveled with me know that it’s not always the glamorous [...]

Yin. Yang. Up. Down. Breathe in. Breathe out. Relax. Repeat. That was the instruction from my spa therapist at the Mandarin Oriental Miami‘s spa during my Mandarin Oriental Signature Spa Treatment (MOSST). I needed a quick getaway alone – away from the laundry, the dirty dishes, the emails, the dust bunnies… I grabbed a cheap [...]

Audrey Hepburn had a fabulous dialogue in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s“: Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The [...]