Travel to Antarctica is One Cool Journey By Kristy Alpert I was buried in a mound of snow the first time I felt the gaze of those dark, penetrating eyes. I didn’t even hear him coming, his footsteps muffled by the sounds of icebergs clashing together and the wind…
The 15 Cheesiest, Most Delicious Finds in Quito, Ecuador Don’t miss out on these cheesy dishes on your next trip to this culinary capital. By Kristy Alpert The country may be famous for potatoes and chocolate, but the one ingredient Ecuadorians won’t go without is cheese. They eat it for…
Apres-ski the Swiss way at Huus Gstaad By Kristy Alpert The cold wind bit at my already frosted cheeks as we rode our way to the top of Gstaad’s soaring mountaintops on the last ski lift operating for the day. After a full day of navigating through freshly fallen powder,…
Experimenting with Homemade Wine Kristy Alpert I called it curiosity, but my parents called it “an accident about to happen.” As long as I can remember, I’ve had an unnamable desire to see for myself. I was the kid who had to learn from my own mistakes, so I could…
10 Essential Stops on a BBQ Crawl Through Memphis By Kristy Alpert Pack your stretchy pants and loosen that belt for some swine dining in Memphis. There are more than 117 barbecue restaurants in Memphis; more if you count the baby back ribs or chocolate dipped applewood smoked bacon at…
Retro Revival: 14 Cool Roadside Hotels Kristy Alpert These former motels have gone from seedy to stylish. Once a national icon, motels fell out of fashion in the late ’60s with the invention of the chain hotel, leaving many mom-and-pop moteliers stranded on America’s roadsides with nothing but a surplus…
Nepal/Everest Trekking Tours Photo: Bridge in Sagarmāthā National Park © KRISTY ALPERT By Kristy Alpert – January 1, 2018 WHEN JAPANESE MOUNTAINEER Takashi Miyahara arrived in Nepal back in 1962, he did so with a one-way ticket and a dream to build up the country he had fallen in love…
Joe David Rice: The Start of an Era Kristy Alpert We said goodbye to Tourism Director Joe David Rice in December, but not before picking his brain about the hidden…
Pampered body and soul at the Monastero Santa Rosa By Kristy Alpert / November 29, 2017 — I bowed my head out of habit as I ducked through the wooden door frame of the spa lobby and into that formerly monastic space, scented in a heavenly rosemary and lemon…
