Ashlea Halpern

We've got 16 reasons to visit @exploreminn and they all involve lake resorts. Your new summer tradition starts now. https://t.co/b88FDK6VET

My @CNTraveler column, Crews on Cruise, is back! This is a fun one: Sokie Macareno Gomez, the tattoo shop manager from @VirginVoyages, talking about crew karaoke nights, ship morgues, and the memorable passenger interaction that inspired her own ink. https://t.co/39qoyaIetM

There's a time and a place for everything, including all-inclusive resorts. I wrote about some of my favorites in Thailand, Tanzania, Crete, and Fiji for @CNTraveler. https://t.co/m5nhbcHyzO

It's here! It's here! I'm so stoked to share @TIME's list of The World's Greatest Places of 2025. It took three months to put this together and features compelling spots in Rwanda, Poland, Bangladesh, Niue, Minnesota, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and more. https://t.co/v8znGNfcH6 https://t.co/PUN6IcKlc8

I cringe when people tell me that I make traveling with a toddler “look easy,” because it means I’m not being honest enough. The third edition of my family travel newsletter for @CNTraveler recounts the worst moment of our trip and how we turned it around. https://t.co/CaOIVTDoBu https://t.co/tkPCx5juvc

India, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina: The second installment of my family travel newsletter for @CNTraveler tells you everything you need to know about how I decided where to take my toddler on our three-month trip around the world. https://t.co/bV0eYFmaMn https://t.co/j9axa5DyX1

The sweetest honeymoon suites in all the land — my latest for @CNTraveler — with shout-outs in Hawaii, Anguilla, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, the Loire Valley, Oman, Vancouver Island, Santorini, Utah, Fiji, Mexico, Kenya, and beyond. https://t.co/h710EM8aqx

What's all the buzz in Bodrum? Here's a service-y primer for @chase Travel. https://t.co/l2AYdAHkYJ

ICYMI, here's an archive link to my first family travel newsletter for @CNTraveler, wherein I explain what compelled me to take my toddler on a 12-week, 14-country trip around the world. https://t.co/eBOQLJgiLc https://t.co/vd7EsYU8HC

For the third installment of my Crews on Cruise column for @CNTraveler, I chatted with Zimbabwe-born @Azamara assistant waitress Presley Pfereka about bucket list port stops, being apart from her daughters, and writing poetry at sea. https://t.co/Kk2ssjIRJV

If you've never taken a Turkish bath, have you really truly lived? My new article for @Chase Travel rounds up the best private hotel hammams in Istanbul — ideal for first-timers who are intimidated by the idea of derobing in front of strangers. https://t.co/QOFGl7ewFR

For @CNTraveler, a rundown of my best tips for traveling with a toddler—both material and psychological—that helped me survive my own 88-day mother-son odyssey. https://t.co/gpCyXBJsSC

In my latest for @CNTraveler, folks who were flagged with the dreaded code share what SSSS means, what might trigger it, and how to get rid of it. (I write from experience.) https://t.co/UCMZ5o1uiK

One of the things that kept me and my toddler sane while leaping from continent to continent were the stopovers I booked between longer stays. For @CNTraveler, I wrote about my favorite layover cities for kids including Sydney, Singapore, and Athens. https://t.co/4Wl2rKiJVe

The roomy luggage, comfy slip-ons, and do-it-all ointment I used most on a three-month trip around the world with a toddler — my latest for @CNTraveler. https://t.co/3t0yIlPrcI

I wasn't trying to "find" myself at an Eat, Pray, Love retreat in Bali, per se, but I did time my visit to Nyepi, a.k.a. the Balinese Day of Silence — a 24-hour Ctrl-Alt-Del for the soul. You can read all about it in the new issue of @ArtfulLivingMag. https://t.co/4MD5fqoFW8

The second installment of my new @CNTraveler column, Crews on Cruise, is live. I interviewed Rachel Boxall, Social Hostess for RSSC, about what first drew her to ship life and exactly how many ballgowns one person needs for a job this fabulous. https://t.co/NQN1F3rm0q