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By ISL_Matthew at 06/09/2009 - 13:56
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 On airplanes, I sit by the window. This keeps my drowsing noggin from getting clipped by the beverage cart, but also the most stunning visual impressions of a place are often those first ones you get from the air.
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By ISL_Matthew at 05/28/2009 - 21:11
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 Kauai is one of the most beautiful places on earth. People agree about this. A first trip here can feel like an exercise in cataloguing places to come back to and spend more time: Waimea Canyon, Kalalau Trail, the hidden and possibly unnamed beaches around Kapa'a on the east coast. However long you have to visit won’t be long enough. That’s why so many visitor move here.
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By ISL_Matthew at 05/21/2009 - 20:55
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 Often invaded but never truly conquered (at least not in spirit), Sardinia is the Mediterranean’s most remote island (at least in distance from its national mainland). The island’s farming culture feels insular, but the people are nonetheless welcoming, and with a hint of introduction, you may find yourself eating and drinking like family.
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By ISL_Matthew at 05/15/2009 - 16:41
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 If USVI is America's Caribbean, then St. Croix may be USVI's Jamaica. The mix of cultures and landscapes, music, art, goat water and people in dreads give St. Croix that laid-back edge. Not that it needs to live by comparison. Its contradictions make perfect sense by themselves.
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By ISL_Matthew at 05/07/2009 - 22:21
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 Down under the land Down Under lies the island of Tasmania
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By ISL_Matthew at 04/30/2009 - 18:47
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 Leaving Hana heading back toward the North Shore, the entrance for Wainapanapa State Park is marked on the makai (ocean) side
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By ISL_Matthew at 04/23/2009 - 22:41
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By ISL_Matthew at 04/17/2009 - 20:58
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 On my recent trip to Aruba, I test-walked a pair of Timberland Kings Bay GTX oxfords with waterproof, breathable
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By ISL_Matthew at 04/16/2009 - 19:13
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 Antigua has one of the best-developed tourist infrastructures in the Caribbean, which is good and bad, but mostly good. Used as a hub for military jets in World War II, the island has welcomed commercial jets since they started carrying passengers in the 1950s. So I was told.
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By ISL_Matthew at 04/09/2009 - 16:07
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 An intersection of cultures and ancient trade routes, the semi-autonomous Tanzanian island of Zanzibar attracts traveler's travelers, those who wake up on their fifth birthday and say, "I have to go everywhere on earth." Sailed upstream to Timbuktu? Been tattooed in Kathmandu? Time to spice things up in Zanzibar.
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