weekly ezine

This week, we’re in the midst of the largest civil rights movement in the world, all in the time of a pandemic. It feels like Mother Earth is yelling at us. Peaceful protests around the world. #BlackoutTuesday on social media. Three lunar eclipses in one month (read here). It can sometimes feel like an extraordinary […]

To say the last 3.5 months have been a wild ride in the world of travel is the understatement of a lifetime. As the head of my luxury travel consortium, Matthew Upchurch, summarized recently – the travel industry was hit first, was hit the hardest, and will take the longest time to recover. Matthew is

I’ve been quoted in another well-known travel magazine this week. This time, the cover article of Travelage West, with an article about “What COVID-19 Can Teach the Travel Industry About Sustainability and Climate Change.” As the article starts (See TravelAge ): Groups of bears, bobcats and coyotes shoot the breeze near cabins in a seldom silent Yosemite

Hope you’re hanging in there! We are living in wild days! But I hope we all come through better, and stronger. Last week, my newsletter noted that we should all re-imagine a “new better” for the future of travel. I’m trying to live up to the words. And I’m trying to ensure that every conversation I have

Today we celebrate Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all! To all the strong women we know, say thank you. Thank you, Mom! And to my mother, my mother in law, my grandmothers – and my daughters: thank you for your kindnesses, your inspiration, your laughter, and your generosity. Mother Earth – we thank you, too! We

As the CoVid19 days persist, we find we’re looking for anything to celebrate. And this week gives us Cinco de Mayo. Yay! As noted https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/cinco-de-mayo Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, is a holiday that celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during

What Penguins Teach Us January 20th was Penguin Awareness Day – and – April 25th was World Penguin Day (yesterday). Did you celebrate? It seems that if the penguin has two days dedicated to it, we should be paying attention (at least once for awareness, and once to pay attention to migration!). We all know

Wednesday this week brings us Earth Day. And we’re all at home. Can you imagine the 50th anniversary of Earth Day will be celebrated mostly at home and online? Of course, it seems fitting. We’re giving Mother Earth a break. We can’t travel right now – so we have to keep dreamin’. See video. After helping

Thought I’d send a little video hello this week. In these uncertain times, let’s focus on the positive. Let’s focus on dreamin’ about travel.  We all want to be in that airplane window seat, looking down at new destinations. It will happen again. Hopefully sooner rather than later. But for now, we dream. Where would

If You Could Only Take One More Trip In these uncertain times, while we are all trying to stay safe in a CoVid-19 world, we dream and plan for getting back to normal. We want to get back to work, back to socializing, and yes, back to travel. The allure of travel remains. Before all