Lori Rackl

5 days ago | travelandleisure-es.com | Lori Rackl |Liliana Ortiz

Unos meses antes de su boda, Mackenzie Gange-Anderson se fue de vacaciones a Marruecos. Pero no fue con su futuro esposo. En cambio, fue con un grupo de mujeres que no conocía. “El aspecto exclusivo para mujeres realmente me atrajo”, dice Gange-Anderson, analista de recursos humanos de Chicago. Durante su aventura de ocho días por las montañas del Atlas con Intrepid, Gange-Anderson tuvo la oportunidad de conocer formas de vida tradicionales.

6 days ago | travelandleisure.com | Lori Rackl

Trekking with Intrepid in Nepal’s Annapurna range. Credit: Matt Cherubino/Intrepid Travel A few months before her wedding, Mackenzie Gange-Anderson took a vacation to Morocco. But she didn’t go with her soon-to-be husband. Instead, she went with a group of women she’d never met before. “The women-only aspect really appealed to me,” says Gange-Anderson, a human resources analyst from Chicago.

2 weeks ago | frommers.com | Lori Rackl

Winter is shaping up to be the new summer when it comes to Mediterranean cruises. Instead of deploying all of their ships to the Caribbean and other balmy destinations when the weather in Europe gets colder, more cruise lines are opting to ply the Med’s waters year-round. And as ships are added, more passengers are gravitating to these voyages during so-called "quiet season" from November through March.

4 weeks ago | thespec.com | Lori Rackl

On a recent trip to Spain, the best paella I ate wasn’t served in a restaurant. It was in a tiny kitchen apartment in Valencia, made by a chef who teaches cooking classes in his home. Jose Rodriguez belongs to a growing network of hosts opening their residences to tourists — travellers craving not only a home-cooked meal but also an up-close look at local life.

2 months ago | chicagotribune.com | Lori Rackl

Church bells echoed through the sunny piazza as I plopped down on a stone bench, digging my plastic spoon into a cup of basil gelato. I’d hiked about 5 miles that morning. I had another 5 to go. A mound of ice cream felt like a fitting reward for reaching the halfway point of my trek in Italy’s famed Cinque Terre. The “Five Lands” — which, like everything, sounds less sexy in English — are a collection of photogenic medieval villages tucked along the country’s rugged northwest coast.