15 hours to Hong Kong, 3 hours to Beijing, 12 hour time difference – it felt incredible to be back in China, 8 years since our last visit, this time with two kids in tow. The whole trip was fairly seamless, and we arrived in beautiful Beijing in high spirits, wildly jetlagged, but somehow full […]

Montreal in February – I turned down a speaking session at a conference in Hawaii to be here with luxury hoteliers soaking up 2026 planning… and I was loving it. A super easy, one hour trip up from Boston, Montreal feels a world away. French influence, from culture to architecture, is found at every corning, […]

As rain splashed down upon me, I looked into café window after café window to find anything I could quickly consume. In a city where Pret a Manger closes at 5pm, it’s challenging to find what I was looking for at 530pm… but I was hungry, and in need of something satisfying prior to the […]

Don’t even think about leaving on time if your flight departs in the late afternoon from Tampa on a hot and humid summer day. Although on the contrary, my 7am flight down to Tampa was delayed 5.5 hours, so perhaps Tampa just isn’t the best destination to fly in/out of in July. But…it was worth […]