The red rocks around Sedona don’t just sit there looking pretty, they actually change color four times before noon depending on where the sun hits the iron oxide. Most visitors rush through in a single afternoon and leave without ever standing inside Boynton Canyon at golden hour. A 2 day Sedona itinerary gives you enough … Read more
Most people expect the best Sedona vortex tours to involve crystals, chanting and strangers holding hands around a rock. That is not what happens or at least not unless you book the wrong one. Sedona’s four main vortex sites are geological formations of twisted juniper trees, red sandstone buttes and electromagnetic energy points that draw … Read more
Most visitors to Hawaii assume Maui owns the best sunsets in the islands. They are wrong. The sunset on Big Island hits differently you can watch the sun drop into the Pacific from a black-sand shoreline, from the deck of a catamaran or from a volcanic summit sitting at 13,796 feet above sea level, with … Read more
Most people who drive up the US-101 to Paso Robles come for the Cabernet. They leave thinking that is all there is. But the town sitting at 700 feet above sea level in the Salinas River Valley has a personality that stretches well beyond the tasting room thermal hot springs beneath the downtown plaza, a … Read more
Most beginner kayaks sacrifice either stability or portability you get a wide, heavy boat that floats well but wears you out before you reach the water. The Pelican Kayak Mustang 100X breaks that pattern. At 36 pounds and 10 feet long, it is light enough for one person to carry from a car to a … Read more
Sharks and swimmers do not belong together, that is what most people believe until they actually swim with leopard sharks La Jolla for the first time. The leopard sharks at La Jolla Cove are slow, bottom-dwelling and completely indifferent to human presence. Every summer, hundreds of them gather in the warm shallow water just off … Read more
Sedona does not look like a place that belongs to this world. The red rock formations rise 1,000 feet above the desert floor, glowing orange at sunrise and deep crimson at dusk and the silence between those canyon walls carries a weight you feel in your chest before you even step out of your car. … Read more
Kona does not ask you to hike volcanoes or surf Waimea to earn its best experiences. A 65-year-old with a bad knee can watch manta rays from a boat at night, taste single-origin Kona coffee at the farm where it grew and swim with sea turtles in calm, protected bay water all without a strenuous … Read more
Most people think Kona shuts down after sunset. They finish their shaved ice, watch the sun drop into the Pacific and head back to their hotel by 7 PM and they miss the best part of the day. The best things to do in Kona at night happen after the beaches empty out bioluminescent water, … Read more
Kona breaks every assumption you arrive with. You expect a resort strip with overpriced cocktails and snorkel tours packed with 40 strangers. What you actually get is a coastline shaped by active volcanoes, an ocean that glows with bioluminescent plankton at night, coffee farms clinging to a volcanic mountain at 2,500 feet and a Hawaiian … Read more