After two trips to Cartagena, Colombia, this year, I feel like it’s my second home. And as cooler weather approaches in Los Angeles, my mind is beginning to drift back to the tropical heat of the Caribbean coast. When the chill and rain of January and February hit, there’s no place I’d rather escape to [...]

Ah, Paris. It’s hard not to sigh when you utter the name of the French capital. Unequivocally, it’s one of the world’s most breathtaking cities. From museums bursting with masterpieces to public gardens laden with bright blooms, Paris is equally alluring both indoors and out. Add in picturesque cobbled neighborhoods, grand Haussmannian boulevards, and the [...]

When I was in Cartagena, Colombia, for a month in January/February, a new audio guide to “The Cartagena of Gabriel Garcia Marquez” was released for the first time to the public.  I was so excited to be one of the first to take the tour, as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s story “Love in the Time [...]