Behind the blog

How it all started

My first flight was to France at age 17, and from the moment I arrived, I was hooked on travel. In college, I discovered air-courier flights to Europe and learned the art of packing a small bag, grabbing a guidebook, and heading off to explore a foreign city.

That sense of adventure eventually led to jobs at Walt Disney World, South Seas Plantation on Captiva Island, Florida, and Club Med Eleuthera in the Bahamas, where I worked as a G.O.

Later, while working full time as an IT specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration, I began turning my love of travel into stories. My articles appeared in publications including AAA Going Places, the Miami Herald, and Explore, the inflight magazine for TACA Airlines.

Years later, I’m still happiest discovering a place I’ve never been, meeting the people who give it character, and finding the stories that make a destination memorable—and then sharing those discoveries with fellow travelers.