Recent travel stories I’ve published for CNN, NatGeo, USA Today, LA Times, and more
For the last eight years, I’ve written and published hundreds of travel articles for CNN, National Geographic, USA Today, LA Times, Lonely Planet, Fodor’s, Orbitz, Frommers, Paste Magazine, and Travel Weekly. For my most recent articles, click here. For some of my recent favorites, see below:
Best of 2021
- Get out there: My new monthly travel column
- America’s greatest hut hike is among the world’s best
- A slice of vintage Vallarta in Las Palmas by The Sea
- 10 reasons this might be America’s greatest lake
- Wasting away at Magaritaville’s first all-inclusive
- 9 travel myths you shouldn’t believe
- Is this the best beach in mainland America?
- Best of the Big Easy | 12 museums to visit before you die
- 5 ways this trendy reservoir rivals Lake Powell
- America’s coolest caves | 5 “southern” cities that never get old
- Berlin’s abandoned spy station is the most dystopian thing ever
- 8 epic bucket list items in the Mountain West
- Utah: Best roadtrips | national parks | things to do | time to visit
Best of the rest (2014-2020)
- What I learned from a lack of travel this year
- What it’s like to hike among 5,000 year old trees
- 5 border-straddling natural wonders to see from both sides
- Going extinct in Utah’s Dinosaur National Monument
- How to travel when you can’t
- How to see the seedier side of Berlin
- Top 10 of 2019 (various)
- Cliff-jumping The Atlantic: Ireland’s best coasteering spots
- Japanese zen: Hiking one of the oldest trails in the world
- Top 10 cycling cities
- 7 takeaways after cruising the Mediterranean with my kids
- Video: 6 ways to overcome your fear of travel
- Is Newfoundland the next Iceland?
- Which Utah National Park is right for you?
- Everything you need to know before visiting Machu Picchu
- What coasteering feels like
- Staying in President Trump’s #1 rated hotel
- Hiking the Alps: 10 days, 3 countries, 1 epic mountain
- Critic turned fan: My Disneyland conversion story
- What 10,000 miles from home feels like
- Went skydiving today. Didn’t die.
- Why Americans don’t travel abroad
- 5 reasons travel is overrated
- What I learned hiking Patagonia with National Geographic
- Why a monotonous view is better than none
- What I learned crossing South Africa by train
- 5 things I learned after visiting New Zealand
- The best of Australia
- 5 reasons cliche Costa Rica is still “Pura Vida”
- What it’s like crossing America’s Loneliest Road
- The greatest mountain wilderness you’ve never heard of
- My very best travel columns (so far)
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