Vacations: frills and chills? Or cheap and tropical?

Last year, on a day not terribly different from today, I was dreaming of spring. And as I did, I ended up writing an armchair-interactive-travel blog. In it, you all boarded my plane and we jet-set off to the Ice Hotels of Switzerland and Kinkade-esque Christmas towns, before staying at some strange underground aquarium ceilinged bedchamber at the bottom of a luxury resort in god-knows-where. Remember that? That was fun… Read More

Neural Holiday with Captain Ash

“This is your captain speaking. Our day of armchair traveling initiates in the Maldives…” So, this place called Cocoa Island is a buncha floating water suites with private diving reefs. It looks like a dream. Yet, I’m just curious to know if I’d be as excited if they’d shown a fat old man in the photo, stumbling gracelessly through those waters with the gait of a corpulent corpse – instead.. Read More