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Wild for the Scottish Highlands

“It’s a good day for eagles,” our ghillie remarked, as we wound our way up through the mountains of Invercauld Estate in the Fife Arms’ 4x4 Defender...
Published for Indagare Travel, July 6, 2026

A Taste of Vietnam: Vivid, Visceral, Vanguard

When I learned that I would be traveling to Vietnam for a scouting assignment, the first two things that came to mind were food and war...
Published for Indagare Travel, August 14, 2025

A Safari by Sea: Sailing the Galápagos Islands with andBeyond

There’s a joyful bewilderment that comes from waking up in a strange place that you never expected you would reach...
Published for Indagare Travel, April 17, 2025

Lunar Landscapes and Island Marvels

Chile is one of the longest and narrowest countries in the world, stretching from just south of the equator to just north of Antarctica. As a result, it is home to an astounding array of climates, from salt pans to glacial ice fields, with wine-growing regions and tropical rainforests in between....
Published for Indagare Travel, November 14, 2024

The Spaces Between: Explorations Along the Tokaido Corridor

A melodic tinkling of chimes plays over the loudspeaker. Departing Tokyo Station, direction Shin-Osaka. Next station, Shinagawa! In perfect sync, the singsong tones filling my car on the Shinkansen conclude, and the train pulls out of the station, slowly at first, but rapidly gathering speed…
Published for Indagare Travel, Spring/Summer Print Magazine, 2023

discovering zambia

In the mornings I take my coffee black, no sugar, and this early June morning was no different—except, this morning, I was blowing the hot steam off the surface of my cup when I suddenly met the softly fringed eyes of a zebra...
Published for Indagare Travel, July 25, 2024


The Azores, Portugal: What to Know Before You Go

Lately buzzed-about as an up-and-coming destination, the Azores date back some eight million years, when volcanic islands rose from the ocean floor in the Atlantic, at the triple junction of the North American, Eurasian and African tectonic plates...
Published for Indagare Travel, August 10, 2026

The New Hotel Defining Milan’s Moment

Next to its ancient, achingly beautiful siblings—Rome, Venice, Florence, Palermo—Milan is often likened to the “ugly stepsister,” offering gray weather, charmless postwar architecture, average food and little allure for those outside of the fashion and design circles. Of course, this caricature is not true...
Published for Indagare Travel, January 30, 2026

UNDER THE SAFARI SKY: KENYA

I’ve never felt more out of place in New York than when I returned from my first safari in Africa. Those initial days back, looking out my window, I realized how accustomed I’d become to having the sky as my constant companion...
Published for Indagare Travel, Spring/Summer Print Magazine 2024

From Bilbao to Bordeaux: A Solo Journey Along the Bay of Biscay

There are few greater luxuries in life than opening up a map and asking oneself: Where would I like to go? This fall, the wedding of a former college roommate brought me to Saint-Émilion. I readily embraced the invitation as a worthy excuse to extend a weekend of festivities into a 10-day scouting trip...
Published for Indagare Travel, February 1, 2024

Discovering Scandinavian Style—and Spirit—in Stockholm and Helsinki

The sky was bright and clear as I walked over the wooden deck of the Löyly spa to peer into the Baltic Sea. The smooth planks creaked at the weight of my solitary footsteps and the cold Helsinki wind made my eyes smart—even though we were just days away from May Day, the Scandinavian celebration of the arrival of springtime…
Published for Indagare Travel, May 20, 2022

Indagare's Stockholm Cheat Sheet

Cool and composed, Stockholm balances history, style and nature in a seemingly effortless manner. Spread across 14 islands where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea, the Swedish capital enchants with centuries-old architecture and royal landmarks, cutting-edge design, world-class restaurants and museums—and a spirit set apart by a deep appreciation for the outdoors...
Published for Indagare Travel, August 10, 2026

Son Bunyola and the Mallorca Wine Region You Need to Know

Near the fisherman’s town of Banyalbufar, just a 40-minute drive from Mallorca’s Palma airport, the 1,300-acre Son Bunyola estate is perched on a prime swath of land stretching from the Tramuntana mountains down to the Balearic Sea...
Published for Indagare Travel, October 6, 2024

Journey to the Land Down Under: Just Back From Australia

“We acknowledge the Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Owners of the Australian continent and recognize their custodianship of culture and country for over 60,000 years. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.” If you are traveling to Australia, these days, you are sure to encounter some version of this message, probably more than once...
Published for Indagare Travel, August 17, 2023

Looking Back, Dreaming Ahead: Discovering Senegal

With the unforgiving expanses of the Sahara creeping down from above, dense jungles encroaching from below and a host of troubled neighbors to the east, it is easy to forget that Senegal, the westernmost country in mainland Africa, is among the most stable and welcoming destinations on the continent…
Published for Indagare Travel, August 19, 2020

A Weekend at The Weston, Vermont

On the main road leading into the tiny village of Weston, Vermont—where highlights include a curio general store dating back to 1946, a year-round Christmas shop and a community playhouse—a white sign embossed with a lantern-bearing, forest-green cat beckons travelers in to discover The Weston…
Published for Indagare Travel, August 15, 2024

Between the Earth and Sky: Santa Fe

Where the Sangre de Cristo mountains meet the foothills of the southern Rockies, rust-colored mesas, mauve ridges and sprawling sagebrush sweep over the space between the earth and sky that comprises New Mexico—and just east of where the Rio Grande cuts through the land lies a cluster of flat-roofed adobe homes, Gothic cathedrals and plazas draped in twinkling lights: Santa Fe…
Published for Indagare Travel, Spring/Summer Print Magazine 2022