If you’re looking to take a trip to Italy, you’re probably debating where to go and how to spend your time. Well, we have some thoughts! Here is an ordered list of the cities we visited, with a few local tips and our recommendations for how long to spend in each place.

I just got back from a life-changing trip to Italy (photos to come!), and realized that there are some things I just can’t leave home without. So I wanted to compile this list in case it helps you travel, too!

Planning a destination wedding without visiting the destination is quite the adventure, and we knew we'd need at least a week before our wedding to get everything ready to go before our big day.

Michia likes to surprise me for Valentine’s Day, so I never get to know where we’re going until we’re on our way, sometimes not until we get there. But between a surprise car and a surprise destination, he made sure it was a day I wouldn’t soon forget.

On our recent trip to Mexico, Michia wanted to do something really special: taking hot air balloons up over the ancient Teotihuacan pyramids special. I was initially hesitant, but ultimately decided that we should just go for it. And I’m so glad we did.

I've always known I love animals, but there was something amazingly special about being among them in the wilderness that I will forever consider one of the best experiences a person can have.

Frequent readers will know that Western Africa is one of my favorite parts of the world, so my expectations were already high when I secured a lift to Bamako.

To avoid flying 30 hours to East Africa just for a couple days, my fiancé and I planned an 18-day adventure that would take us to 3 nature reserves, 2 countries, 5 cities, and enough outings to cover the holidays and then some. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's talk about Nairobi.

TripAdvisor's #1 Attraction in Nairobi is the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant sanctuary, and that's not without reason. Visiting these young elephants is definitely one of the most satisfying things to do in the city.

How do I prepare for a trip to Cuba? What restrictions are there, as an American? What activities count toward Support for the Cuban People? Where should I stay? What kind of money should I bring? Answers to all these questions and more, in a streamlined guide.

No trip to Cuba would really be complete without a visit to cigar country, so we booked a day-tour of Viñales, a rural town three hours west from Havana. It was here that we discovered rolling hills of green, vast farms of tobacco, and the home of Cuba's main exports.

Cuba is a photographer's paradise. It has pastel buildings, neon cars, and green farms that stretch as far as the eye can see. Contrasted against these bright colors are old, dilapidated mansions. It is a country of stark juxtaposition, a country caught in the 1960s.