John DeLeva

Two things came to mind when I opened a letter from Avis and read that I was being banned from renting any more cars for “abusing their unlimited mileage privilege." First the obvious:...

Work and wanderlust have kept me on the road 200 days or more every year for the past three decades, until this year. I’m still, however, wandering somewhere in my mind everyday while...

Here, visitors can snorkel with darting fish in brilliant coral reefs and scuba dive to shipwrecks, explore a WWII museum and stunning viewpoints and enjoy a fabulous meal or two before New Yorkers...

Nobody wants to hear someone who lives in Maui complain about anything, ever. We really only whine about the crowds, but tourism is the economy and we accept that. Then the virus comes...

Bush pilots, tour guides and vaudeville performers share their perspectives on this wild state. In a place where halibut can weigh more than NFL lineman, where the sun may not...

For years I had fantasized about visiting all seven continents on a once-in-a-lifetime-trip, but until recently it remained an elusive journey. Then the stars aligned and I was able to patch together a wild adventure from...

I get nostalgic looking back at a trip we took to South America in the mid-90’s with little money and even lower expectations. The plan was no plan, to leave a place when we were done with it, whether that was an hour, a day or a week. We booked absolutely nothing except the flight there and back.