travel

It's deep Autumn and fishing for Brown's is distilled to it's very essence. The true beauty of simplicity.  Mike Lawson writes beautiful words as usual about his time spent on the water. Fall...

We catch up with D.E. author, film maker, surfer, Father, and brother of the cloth at his home in Malibu. 1.  We loved Dead Mountain and passed it around quite a bit back at HQ.   How's the Cobain movie...

Palmyra is an ancient place.  Standing for 2000 years before the Romans even set conquering eyes on its fabled arches and columns.  "The Bride of the Desert" was a critical caravan stop for those crossing...

Lost Cities were real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that fell into terminal decline and whose location was later lost. Most lost cities are found, and have been studied extensively by...

Babington house is one of our favorites for a quick weekend away or a hide away mid week. Somerset just glorious in the Autumn for long ambles, upland game shoots, and lounging about..... An 18 acre...

Azure or golden – take your pick. Jodhpur’s best-known sobriquet is the Blue City, and Mehrangarh, the storied fort that towers above it, is called the Citadel of the Sun; and this ancestral stronghold...

In 1944, Harold Fisk had been following ghosts for three years. His ghosts were of the meandering Mississippi. A river, big or small, doesn’t stay still – as its waters flow it carves out new paths...

    We can't make up our mind.  One minute it's Hawaii then Tahiti, the American West, no it's vaguely European......Madeira exists in a strange dreamlike state.  As unteathered as it is...

saudade: a portuguese alchemy from Jethro Waters on...

Before becoming Prime Minister for a second time in 1951, Winston Churchill wanted to retreat somewhere ‘warm, bathable, comfortable and flowery’ where he could paint and work on his war memoirs. A friend...

  We love Sao Paulo for many reasons but a favorite might be the beautiful Jardins district with it's lush gardens, incredible restaurants, and luxury shopping.  It also doesn't hurt that Sao Paolo is...

Natai Beach, on Thailand’s west coast, is separated from Phuket by a strait that is only a few hundred metres across, but the short distance belies a difference in character and feel between the two...

  When we were younger our friend A.R. decided he had reached his limit of Wyoming winters. He met an Argentinian girl, left us holding our climbing gear, and moved south to fish for large Browns...

The tinkering about is finished.  The attendant has quietly removed my g&t in anticipation and the engines begin their thrum. There is the usual roar and I watch the grass on either side  first...

Bar Longhi, The Gritti Palace, Venice It’s taken 15 months and $50 million to restore the landmarked Gritti Palace to its glory: hand-laid terrazzo floors, furniture upholstered in fabrics from storied...

We came to Italy originally seeking craftsmen and true artists to make our clothing.  Time spent in Italy over the years has brought us great pleasure and appreciation for specific local flavors and ways of...

American Bar, The Savoy, London Chief barkeep Erik Lorincz (who looks a bit like Errol Flynn) presides over this iconic bar tucked into the lobby of the recently refurbished Savoy hotel. The gleaming,...

At this point we loathe one another.  We have shared our mouldering paperbacks, played cards until the outcome of every game is disputed, glugged gallons of Chilean wine, gorged ourselves on lamb stew, and...

  I could almost mark the length between the trips I make from the sunny Algarve to Lisbon by whether or not Jose Avilliez has opened a new restaurant. He is certainly Portugal’s most prolific chef, if...

Quick- do you remember your favorite meal? ? The exact location, the sights, the smells of such a repast? We are often asked this question and sometimes it's the sum all of everything that makes such a thing...

  It's that time of year. Summer's doldrums are upon us.  We are finished with Royal Ascot, the clamor of Pitti Uomo in Florence has receded, and the Fourth of July a mere hangover. The Royal...

Its the Meridian, that imaginary half of a great circle, curving from pole to pole that has us thinking about our journeys as of late. Where are we on that great arc and does our location even matter?  We...

We often talk about the resonance that we feel in moving through a landscape as we search for our one of a kind goods.  We immerse ourselves in the culture of a place to gain a stronger understanding of why...

  "My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a...