Amy Spencer

Amy Spencer is a former magazine editor turned Los Angeles-based journalist. She writes lifestyle features, essays and celebrity cover stories for magazines like Glamour, In Style, Health and many others. She travels extensively (this, after all, being part of the reason she chose writing on her own schedule for a living), and looks forward to sharing her future experiences abroad with Travel Squire. Her next trip: Toyko, Nagano and Kyoto Japan. Amy, a former talk radio host on Sirius/XM radio, is also a dating and relationship expert and positively proud author of the new book Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match. She now lives in Venice, CA with her husband. You can read more about Amy on her site http://www.amy-spencer.com and more about her book at http://meetingyourhalforange.com.

Samoa’s Polynesian Culture

[wide][/wide] Call Samoa the country of sarongs. On this group of nine volcanic islands, about 2,600 miles southwest of Hawaii in the South Pacific, even the police wear what are called lava-lava instead of pants. First colonized by Germans as German Samoa, then controlled by New Zealand at the start … Read more

Machu Pichu, Peru

Stepping into a Postcard Machu Picchu ends up on most of our “someday” lists at one point, and I just got to check it off mine. Though my husband and I didn’t hike to it via the Inca Trail, we still worked up a trip full of adventure and magic, … Read more

Short Stay in Kyoto

I considered Kyoto a one-day trip, planned to visit for two, and in the end stayed for three. The truth is though you could easily spend a week in this city three hundred miles southwest of Tokyo. Kyoto is a fishbowl city, nestled in mountains on its West, North and … Read more