If travelling with your kids is about expanding their horizons and ambitions, then my recent trip to Greece was a roaring success. Seeing, doing, and thinking about things so different from life at home led to some moments of profound parenting joy. Not to mention some unexpected career announcements. Admittedly, most parents might wish their […]

Isla Espiritu Santo is a magical Mexican island in the beautiful Sea of Cortez, by Mexico’s Baja California, best accessed from the attractive beach town of La Paz  – itself nothing like the “tourist corridor” found further south in Baja, way more Mexicano in feel…) and worth visiting in its own right. The Sea of […]

On a recent research trip to Panama, a local described it to me as the 1000 island country, something I hadn’t previously imagined. Nicaragua is the land of volcanoes, Guatemala the land of the Maya…  I’d been used to thinking of Panama primarily as the jungle-rich country surrounding the canal. But islands? Running down its […]