Category: Portfolio

Fodors

10 Incredible Tree House Hotels in the U.S.   If you’ve ever wanted to take your love of the great outdoors to new heights, get ready to climb up to the canopy and sleep in one of these amazing treehouse hotels. Feats of contemporary engineering, these contemporary treehouse hotels are…

Fodors

Top 15 Beach Destinations for Winter Vacations While the rest of the world is buried beneath sheets of snow and ice, many of the best beach vacations can be found blanketed in nothing but sunshine and warm breezes. There’s no need to wait until summer to step your toes into…

Fodors

Fodor’s Go List 2019 52 reasons to get going. For some of us, travel is a necessity. A luxury, a break, an adventure–yes, but what’s more, it is our true reality. Because when we travel, we are awake. Travel, its ethos of wonder, curiosity, and open-mindedness: it truly makes us…

AY Magazine

American Woodie: Turning a Diamond Mine into a Humanitarian Gem Kristy Alpert    For a man who has spent the last six years running a diamond mine in Sierra Leone, Woodie Butler wears surprisingly few diamonds. Zero, to be exact. The only diamond of value to this Arkansas native is…

Global Traveler

Best Food Tours Photo: Eat Mexico cactus farm tour © ANA TELLO / EAT MEXICO By Kristy Alpert ULTIMATELY, GETTING A TASTE for culture and adventure is what travel is all about, and now more than ever, travelers take that concept literally. Many use guidebooks or spend hours scouring local…

AY Magazine

Vault: Banking on a Great Experience Kristy Alpert  For nearly 40 years, the building at 723 Central Avenue in Hot Springs sat empty, abandoned after its last tenant, Citizens Bank, moved out and shut the ironclad vault one final time. Dating back to 1909, when it opened as the First Federal…

Cool Hunting

FINDING SANCTUARY IN CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN RESORT + SPA AN AESTHETIC OVERHAUL FOR THE ACCLAIMED WELLNESS LOCATION By Kristy Alpert  The sun hasn’t even made its way over the mountains in the distance when a small group begins Thai Chi. Inside, the soothing sound of water flowing through a zen garden…

Cool Hunting

WORD OF MOUTH: QUARTIER INTERNATIONAL, MONTRÉAL DELVING DEEPER THAN BUSINESS IN THIS DOWNTOWN DISTRICT By Kristy Alpert Business districts aren’t typically hubs of excitement, but don’t tell that to Montréal. It’s here that the city’s commercial core has made a community where culture and style can thrive. The Quartier International…

World Bride

Why Wait For The Honeymoon? by Kristy Alpert The newest complimentary wellness experience at this luxury resort lets brides bliss out before the wedding Sunset at the Sanctuary Spa   Even though I didn’t arrive at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa as a bride, a honeymooner, or even…