Travel

I'm getting out of Dodge! Yes, I have an (ahem) business trip! Most of you are likely yawning, "Big whoop, Kim. You're going out of town. What's the big deal?" Humor me. When my husband Mark travels, he packs his bag, kisses us goodbye and off he goes. Throughout our...

Don't you love those pictures that show correspondents in foreign places, ruddy, muddy, sweaty -- Sebastian Junger in Afghanastan, a photographer atop an elephant wading in the Ganges, a fashion writer in Milan sipping cappuccino streetside. This month we dedicated a juicy chunk of Ladies Who Launch content to...

I'm in the process of getting ready for a trip to France. First off, just in case any of you work for the Internal Revenue Service, this is not a pleasure trip. It's for research so that I can better inform my readers of what's going on in the world....

On Thursday, May 8th, Israel will celebrate its 60th Anniversary. On hand to celebrate will be just about 2,500 North American teenagers, who will have come by way of Poland, after participating in what's become an annual ritual in at Auschwitz: The March of the Living. The march draws...

With all the hubbub erupting over plastic bottles, I decided to go the metal water bottle route a couple of months ago, investing in a handsome-looking cylinder from the sporting goods shop something Swiss (if made there, then less eco-friendly by way of the shipping to get it here...

In Fifth Grade I wrote a poem about Madison Avenue.

Even then I sensed that there was something curative about walking past the stores with art gallery windows and watching the people go by. Years later, it's still a great way to spend a sunny day and, during sale season,...

Just like so many great things in life, my decision to move to Dakar, Senegal was based largely on a mistake.

I was 23-years-old, and as a journalist in Sarasota, Florida I was happy, but I felt the pull to venture abroad. It was one of those pulls you...

In 1800 less than three percent of the world lived in cities. Today over three billion people live in urban areas--more than half of the world's population! According to Richard Saul Wurman, in the 21st century there are currently 19 cities across the globe that are home to...

I visited Baltimore on Thursday, and checked out Mount Vernon Place. It's a historic area of the city, with four rectangular parks, arranged around a towering marble monument to George Washington.

On Thursday, the parks were fenced off, as if the area was under construction -- but the...

Stylish.

In the past, the word has described a coat, a shoe, or even a woman. Today, thanks to Silverjet, it now describes a flight. In case you are not familiar, Silverjet is the upstart luxury focused airline which debuted last January. In the year since it launched,...

I'm in Anchorage, Alaska right now where I watched the ceremonial start of the 2008 Iditarod yesterday. This year, 96 teams will make the 1150 mile trip from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nome, on the Bering Sea, who will officially depart this afternoon. (I'm going to Nome next, but will...

There is a battle brewing in the Bahamas, involving all the Commonwealth's veins of lifeblood: its natural beauty, its economy, its people, and of course, tourism.

The controversy is centered in Guana Cay, an island where the San Francisco-based Discovery Land Company plans to build a 595 acre,...

I've just returned from a trip to Portland, Oregon, where my last good argument for why New York City is the best city on the continent failed me.

I sort of knew that this would happen before I went--oh, I'd heard the rumors--and it happened on the drive from the...