In August 2015, I organized a trip to Ethiopia that took me across the width and breadth of that beautiful, ancient land. During that trip, I visited many of its world- renowned sites and a number of historical cities and saw some of its natural wonders, such as the towering Simien Mountains and the Blue Nile Gorge. 

In early September 2017 I returned to Ethiopia, a country, along with its people, that I had become particularly fond of. I wanted to retrace the steps of my...

It was a leap of faith. ITN received a call from a subscriber who had just returned from a trip to Romania and wanted to let us know that he had enthusiastically encouraged the tour operator, Cultural Romtour, to contact our magazine in the hopes of introducing the company to the ITN “family” of travelers. The company’s owner, Razvan Balint, soon reached out with an offer to host a representative of ITN on a late-August 2017 tour. Since I was already going to be in...

In May 2017, my wife, Iris, and I started a 42-day trip to the South Pacific with an evening Air New Zealand flight from Los Angeles to New Zealand. 

On this island-hopping trip, we took 31 different flights (including short interisland flights), extending from the Tropic of Capricorn, 23.45 degrees south of the equator, to nearly the Tropic of Cancer, 23.45 degrees north of the equator. Our trip, arranged by Hima at Asian Pacific Adventures (Tarzana, CA; 800/825-1680, www....