A member of the Society of American Travel Writers and other media groups, Doug has served as an editor for several international magazines. He travels the globe to enjoy a variety of exotic outdoor experiences.
As a travel scribe who writes about all aspects of a trip, I’ve never visited a destination based almost entirely on food. Sure, good eats are high on the interest list when visiting noted culinary destinations like New...
I dine out a lot, and that involves Spartan one-star diners to five-star palaces. I equate food quality to the level of expectation and menu sophistication, but poor service is never acceptable anywhere.I’m okay paying...
So many years of life flew by without my experiencing a region of the world that’s seemed like an unreachable dream. That finally changed this year on a South Pacific cruise with my son Michael. It featured...
Take a city with a Spanish moniker, add a Japanese-themed hotel, toss in a Pacific seafood house and wuddya got? San Francisco, mi amigo, featuring a night at the inscrutable Hotel Nikko and crab claw crackin’ fun...
Some things in life never let you down. For me and endless other gastronomic aficionados, one of them is Brennan’s of New Orleans. Year after year, visit after visit, you know what you want and know what you...
After visiting New Orleans countless times over the years, I decided to give the area a rest after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in 2005. And just last year, when a heavy hankering for Creole cooking and Zydeco music began...
A statue in Fiji honors a native who ate nearly 1,000 people, and with a sly grin Fijians are quick to add that no parts went to waste. But it’s easy for them to make reference to...
Here’s an idea for a simple rating system for places you visit and may want to revisit. With one point the lowest and 10 the highest, add up the score for the three main traveling criteria: food, accommodations...
Okay, I’m referring to high in an elevated sense here, as in watching a tranquil Gulf of Mexico sunset atop the Clearwater Beach Hyatt’s rooftop Sky Terrace.Then again, I’ve got nothing against swilling...
Experiencing new destinations is like a blood transfusion. Splurges of colorful trees, pastures and homes frame every hill and s-curve. Routine drives morph into adventures of discovery by way of great diners, local beers and passersby of local character...