Notes from the Road
A traveller’s record of places, provisions, and the small companion who now comes along. More about the author →
Featured Stories
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AutoCamp Russian River: An Airstream Among the Redwoods
My AutoCamp Russian River stay in an Airstream among redwoods, with campfire cooking, Armstrong Redwoods, Fort Ross and a Benovia wine tasting.
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Charles Rolls: Before Luxury Learned to Sit Still
Charles Rolls raced the motor car, flew the Channel and recognised transport inside experimental machinery long before his name appeared on an airliner engine.
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Dennis Tito: When Space Became a Destination
Dennis Tito’s self-funded Soyuz journey made personal desire a legitimate reason to leave Earth—and helped turn space from a government target into a destination.
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César Ritz: When Luxury Learned to Repeat Itself
César Ritz turned the habits of a recurring international elite into a portable hotel standard carried by trained people, local partnerships and his name.
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Louis Vuitton: The Geometry of Travel
Louis Vuitton made the travel trunk lighter, weather-resistant and stackable—an industrial intervention that changed how luxury moved through the modern world.
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Wally Byam: The House That Learned to Travel
Wally Byam turned the travel trailer into something larger: a room, a community and the confidence to stay where tourism infrastructure had not yet arrived.
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10 Best Things to Do in Lake Como, Italy
My 10 favorite things to do in Lake Como, from Bellagio and Varenna to historic villas, botanical gardens, waterfalls, ferries, and Brunate.
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Juan Trippe: The World, Measured with String
Juan Trippe saw routes before airplanes: how Pan Am turned international flight from an expedition for the few into infrastructure for everyone.
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The Edgewater Hotel, Seattle: the city beyond work
How one risky Beatles booking made The Edgewater a music hotel—and why its windows above Elliott Bay still change the character of a Seattle work trip.
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Zanzibar White Sand: the private side of Paje
My Zanzibar White Sand review: a beachfront villa on Paje Beach, with a private pool, rooftop sunrise, cooking class, garden bicycles and the Indian Ocean beyond.