Chuck Mai

The Lofoten Islands – beautiful, untamed and north of the Arctic Circle in the tempestuous waters of the Norwegian Sea – bely their location as...

There’s something enchanting about the idea of being on your own secluded island. In the 1950s musical South Pacific, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein expressed...

Hugging the shores of beautiful Grand Traverse Bay in the far northwestern part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, Traverse City is a clean, crisp, cool drink...

Today’s treehouse paradises are a far cry from the rickety contrivances we used to make out of two-by-fours and plywood when we were kids, so...

The spectacular beauty and organic charm of the Land of Fire and Ice are surprising favorites for adventurers to the North Atlantic. Geysers, lagoons, waterfalls,...

The first of our country’s 60 national parks was Yellowstone, established in 1872, with a relative handful of adventurers. Today, national parks draw visitors by...

The nation’s capital will knock your socks off, whatever your politics. After more than a dozen visits, I am still bowled over by Washington. There...

It’s the city of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Akhmatova, Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky and Aleksandr Pushkin. It’s a magnificent expanse of rivers, canals and harbors spread across...

Tall and narrow like a loblolly pine, Chile stretches for more than 2,650 miles along South America’s Pacific coast and averages a width of 109...