Timothy Baker

Jun 5, 2024 | wendyperrin.com | Brook Wilkinson |Carolyn Brown |Timothy Baker |Billie Cohen

The wide array of places that are great in January may surprise you. If that’s your time frame for a trip, take inspiration from your fellow travelers’ reviews of their favorite January trips—to locales as varied as Italy (even including Sicily), Scandinavia for the northern lights, Belize for a more affordable Caribbean vacation, Colombia for a sunny getaway for food lovers, Australia (where January is the height of summer), and the list goes on.

May 23, 2024 | wendyperrin.com | Hannah Howard |Brook Wilkinson |Wendy Perrin |Timothy Baker

Many of Europe’s iconic cities have become overrun by tourists during parts of the year. The overcrowding makes life harder for locals and potentially unpleasant for visitors who aren’t using the smartest strategies to bypass the masses and skip the lines.

Dec 4, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Timothy Baker |J.G. Ballard |N. Katherine Hayles |Abby Smith Rumsey

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. All childhood is an imagined world. It’s rare to find a memoir of childhood reading that does not begin with, or at least include, a love of maps; the places of fiction define and extend our own.

Nov 15, 2023 | wendyperrin.com | Timothy Baker |Brook Wilkinson

There are travelers. And there are travelers. And then there’s Bob Payne, the guy who took an around-the-world trip over a long weekend just so he could hear the stories of fellow travelers. (Who does that?! Everybody knows you can’t begin talking to your fellow passengers until half an hour before landing.)  When asked, at check-in at JFK, what was his final destination, he was able to answer in all honesty: JFK.