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Rodeo, Hawaii Style – American Way Magazine

Surfing might be the state’s best known sport, but Hawaii’s teen cowboys are rocking America’s most competitive rodeo – American Way Magazine.

Blockbuster Hotels – BRIDES Magazine

Five movies, five scene stealing hideawaysBRIDES magazine

The 10 lb pack – Men’s Journal

Catalyst Backpack

10 lb pack - 3

10 lb pack - 2

Best Folding Bikes – Men’s Journal

Folding Bikes 1Folding Bikes 2

Chefs and Class – Men’s Journal

Teach a Man to Fish: the Gift of Cooking Class – Men’s Journal

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Best Chefs in the National Parks – Men’s Journal

Pyramids – Budget Travel

Dream of going to the Pyramids?  I did, for Budget Travel.

The Unknown Caribbean – Men’s Journal

Tropical islands aren’t so great for very long walks, unless you head to Dominica – Men’s Journal

How is Marriage Like a Prison? – BRIDES Magazine

When your soul-mate is your cell-mate, take the ball-and-chain on vacation!  – BRIDES Magazine

New Oyster Cult – Northshore Magazine

Oyster.com’s Elie Seidman plans on changing the way the world buys vacations – one online hotel review at a time  -  for Northshore Magazine.

Swimming With Sharks for Men’s Journal

The greatest shark dive on earth, Cocos Island – for Men’s Journal

First I went to TURKEY and MEXICO.

Then I went to IRELAND.

Then I flew to MAUI.

I love writing this stuff.

It’s online now too, here, here, here, and here.

Take to the tracks with the Top 5 Train Rides in North America and Men’s Journal.

For truly friendly travel with ever-changing scenery, take your foot off the gas, unbuckle your seat belt, and hit the rails.

Don’t forget your essential gear – a personal bar.

[Print version here.  Online version here.]


By resurrecting its cuisine, Chef Michael Dowd tries to preserve a tribe’s traditional way of life – Men’s Journal

Michael O’Dowd collects swords, races BMWs, and asks little old Indian ladies for their grandmothers’ recipes. As executive chef of Kai restaurant at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass resort outside Phoenix, O’Dowd takes Native American ingredients and marries them to haute techniques, pairing wild elk with tagliatelle, bathing sea urchins in a fondue of piquillo peppers, and infusing cotton candy with Amarillo chiles.

The original thru-hiker for Men’s Journal

A new Smithsonian exhibit looks at environmentalist Earl Shaffer, the first man to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one continuous trip — for Men’s Journal.

Honeymooning Alone for Brides Magazine

Shanghai – Brides Magazine  (p.1, p.2)

Big Island Beaches – Brides Magazine (p.1, p.2)

Raising the curtain on the Cannes International Film Festival for Men’s Journal.


I broke my feet on the Appalachian Trail — both of them — but my trip paid off with a story or two. 

Trail Dangers and Magic, story.

Map Page 1, Map Page 2


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Mother’s Day with Everyday With Rachel Ray

When not thinking about tea, I write magazine stories about travels with Mom.

To schnecken, a love letter

Food is a vehicle for memory; it is our first encounter with metaphor. A favorite food, a special dish, can bring back a rush of details about people long gone.  Meditations on a madeleine cookie can recreate an entire lost world. My great aunt-Lil died at age 98, and, though we could see it coming, it never occurred to us to write down her schnecken recipe. In the many years since, it has become a double blow–Aunt Lil is dead and we have lost the keys home.

–Plenty Magazine


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Paradise Retained, 2005 NATJA award winning story examining conservation in the Galapagos Islands. — Plenty Magazine


In Galapagos, animals are rockstars. The fauna are friendlier than your neighbors. Sea lions stare directly into your mask while you snorkel with sea turtles, penguins, and giant manta rays.  Later, while sunning on the beach, you may find that same sea lion has cuddled up beside you for a snooze.  The birds, brilliantly and bizarrely festooned, are so close and so fearless they will sing right into your ear.  There are rainbow-colored giant iguanas.  And when you sail into the sunset, whales and dolphins frolic in your bow-waves. …To travel in Galapagos is to watch Darwin’s ideas take shape, as if one had sat down to watch Shakespeare write.


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