On the Road

  By Julie Snyder So what’s a couple to do when their thirtieth-anniversary travel adventure—a Transatlantic cruise on the Queen Mary 2 and two weeks in Italy—is derailed by a global pandemic? Buy a camper, of course. If we couldn’t comfortably travel to distant destinations, then we’d explore close to

By Everett Potter Will this be a banner year for RV travel? Consider that millions of cooped-up Americans are eager to get out and travel. Driving will be the preferred method of transportation and self-cocooning in some sort of RV would seem to be one of the most desirable ways

By Everett Potter AutoCamp, the California company which owns and operates luxury glamping resorts in Santa Barbara, Russian River Valley, and Yosemite National Park, has announced it will open a fourth location. The new AutoCamp is on Cape Cod, and is scheduled to open in the fall of 2020.   This

By Everett Potter Last year, I wrote a story for Forbes on the sleek Bowlus Road Chief, a sleek Art Moderne travel trailer that was redesigned with all the comforts that 21st century travelers were looking for, such as heated floors, charging stations for devices, flexible space options, and a

By Everett Potter If you’re heading to Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine this summer, it’s likely that you’re staying in lively Bar Harbor, with its many hotels, motels, ice cream parlors, and restaurants. It’s the major gateway for Acadia, with easy access from downtown. Acadia, of

By Michael Kiefer Among the lesser-known entries in Leonardo DaVinci’s notebooks is a sketch for a perpetual-motion machine powered by the hot air from a single Italian tour guide. They can talk forever. Every church, every piazza, every village is the most be-you-ti-ful in all of Italy. Then follows a

By Everett Potter Discovering Ireland through its food is a relatively new concept. In fact, it’s safe to say that no one went to the Emerald Isle on a mission to dine until the mid-1980s, with the advent of pioneering restaurants like Ballymaloe House in County Cork, where the late

By Everett Potter What is the most iconic travel trailer in America? An Airstream, of course, those silver bullet-shaped aluminum trailers that have been a familiar presence on American highways since the 1930’s. Designer Wally Byam created these classic trailers in various models. By the 1950’s, he was leading caravans