When I travel and tell someone I'm from Los Angeles, I brace myself for the inevitable question: "Aren't you afraid of earthquakes?" Of course I am. When you're nice and cozy beneath the covers and...

Not really. What hotels have to learn about romance could fill a 500-gallon bubble bath. I just returned from an African safari. The trip was fabulous on all accounts, save 1: on our final night, ...

With love, anything can happen--the best and the worst, suffering and bliss. But padlocks on a bridge? The symbolism is obvious: "You and me, bound by our love." In more or less indelible ink, gid...

It's difficult to understand change when you're right in the middle of it. I wonder what people thought during the Industrial Revolution when they rode a train for the very first time, drove a car, ...

As we got closer to Saint Barts, a dream destination, I realized why this is where one finds the most megayachts in the world (who would have thought that at 150 feet, we would be one of the smaller b...

As we approached the center of the 300-year-old city, I saw the golden spire of the Admiralty. We rounded the corner in view of the Tsars' Winter Palace, and then passed the soaring onion domes of th..

While Bejing's Zhou Dynasty days are ancient history, the city is still an intriguing blend of old and new, with booming development and a healthy respect for old traditions. My gentleman companion t...

Chinese documentation of the exploration of sex and sexuality dates back to the 3rd and 4th centuries B.C. The Chinese have always viewed sex as nourishment to human health; it is considered as funda...

Hallways used to lead somewhere; now, hallways go nowhere. Schedules no longer existed for her. Life was in one room at the end; the geography of her world separated her from the healthy people who ...

Southeastern Alaska is a kingdom of water and ice, a natural masterpiece in progress. Just 100 years before, the area was completely choked with ice, and now the massive glaciers continue to advance ...