Des Moines Iowa on TravelSquire

My City – Des Moines with Michael Shawn “Clown” Crahan

While travel and festivals remain stalled, we’re here to bring you inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors If all you know about Iowa is the catchy Rogers & Hammerstein tune from State Fair or the rolling plains and cornfields from your road … Read more

Bosque el Olivar on TravelSquire

Bosque el Olivar: Finding Peace in a City of 10 Million

While travel remains stalled, we’re here to bring you inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors Sitting in Bosque el Olivar – Olive Grove Forest – surrounded by 1,600 olive trees, you wouldn’t know a bustling city of 10 million sits waiting a … Read more

Phil West Safaris on TravelSquire

Glamping on an African Safari

While travel remains stalled, we’re continuing to dream and plan. We’re here to bring you travel inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors There is no single adventure on earth that can change your relationship with the universe like a safari. Ben Affleck, … Read more

Highlights of Fes Morocco on TravelSquire

Exploring Fez, Morocco

Our travel may be temporarily interrupted, but we can still dream and plan. We’re here to bring you travel inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors It’s Hard Not to Get Lost in Fez Imagine walking down a spiraling cobblestone street, getting closer … Read more

Cleveland culture on TRavelSquire

Cleveland: A Cultural Center in the American Heartland

Our travel may be temporarily interrupted, but we can still dream and plan. We’re here to bring you travel inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors It is the rare city where everyone is welcome, and where the moxie of its people is … Read more

Five of the Quirkiest Towns in the USA on TravelSquire

Five of the Quirkiest Towns in America

Our travel may be temporarily interrupted, but we can still dream and plan. We’re here to bring you travel inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors If “Off-the-Beaten-Track” is the clarion call of the more adventurous traveler, then “quirky” must be the flashier … Read more

cultural highlights of Lima on TravelSquire

“Culture-ific” Lima, Peru

Our travel may be temporarily interrupted, but we can still dream and plan. We’re here to bring you travel inspiration for the trips you’ll take when life returns to normal. – TravelSquire Editors TravelSquire named Machu Pichu and Cusco, Peru to our Top 28 Destinations for 2020 for good reason. … Read more

Aspen experiences

Hidden Aspen

Aspen is one of those wonderfully wintery destinations that came from modest mining-town beginnings to jumping the shark and beguiling the rich and famous.  Beneath the veneer, the town has managed to retain the soul, vision and passion of its early champions.  Chicago businessman Walter Paepcke was one of those … Read more

Things to do in Dontonbori

Osaka, Japan’s Dotonburi District: Get Squished, Eat, Play, Repeat

The hottest trend fueling psychology circles right now is the revival of the Enneagram, nine personality categories that help you better understand yourself and others. I am a #Seven, the consummate Enthusiast, who possesses an insatiable zeal for life. We Sevens yearn for one big, fat adventure after another. If … Read more

Little Havana Highlights on TravelSquire

Cuban Cigars, Coffee & Unwavering Culture

On any given day, the scent of hand rolled Cuban cigars and strong coffee fills the air of the streets of Little Havana. Located just minutes from the gleaming high rises and international banking center of downtown Miami and the Brickell Corridor, this humble yet vibrant neighborhood is home to … Read more

things to do in Madeira on TravelSquire

Discovering Portugal’s Exotic Frontier

The dramatic sunrise on the volcanic island of Madeira is one of those memories that will stay with me forever. After waiting for what seems forever, the quiet is suddenly interrupted by birds chirping, accompanied by a dramatic color change in the sky from black to orange against a calm … Read more

Quebec Ice Hotel on TravelSquire

The Quebec Ice Hotel Turns 20

Long before Frozen’s Elsa of Arendelle warmed her way into our hearts with her icy architectural skills, the Hôtel de Glace (Ice Hotel) had been imagining a frozen wonderland in Québec, Canada. This year marks the hotel’s 20th anniversary as the only ice hotel in North America and they’re honoring … Read more

Kanamean Nishitomiya

Kyoto’s charms lie in its hidden alleys, majestic shrines and the careful preservation of traditions more modern cities like Tokyo have lost. And there’s no better way to experience the old-world charm of the city than in a ryokan, a traditional inn in one of the city’s old wooden houses. … Read more

Jersey City in the spotlight on TravelSquire

Jersey City: Finally, in the Spotlight

I’ve been living in Manhattan across the Hudson River from it for 19 years, but like most New Yorkers, I never visited Jersey City, not even once. And then I finally did. Boy, was I missing out. Jersey Gloire Poor JC. It has the history, food, architecture, culture, art and … Read more

Valencia's Las Fallas Festival on TravelSquire

Las Fallas Festival: Culture and Pyrotechnics Converge in Valencia

Every year from March 1-19, Valencia goes boom! The streets of Spain’s third-largest city erupt with fireworks, cultural celebrations and artistry honored on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List. What is the Las Fallas Festival? For starters, it’s the biggest party of the year, attracting more visitors to Valencia than any … Read more