Sean Conway

Pixar’s 2021 film Luca looked awfully familiar. The coming-of-age story of sea monsters living incognito among the humans of a small...

“Amazing.” “Stunning.” “Incredible.” “So, so beautiful.” I’d been hearing superlatives decorating any mention of Iceland like confetti,...

Before our 2010 honeymoon, Christine and I had taken just two trip together: the first was an April vacation in Clearwater Beach in...

During the summer of 2012 I had the opportunity to visit both Key West, Florida, and then, later, Provincetown at the very tip of Cape...

Tulum was the third chapter in the Jeff trilogy. Christine and I had traveled to Belize with my brother, Jeff, back in 2016, and then...

It has the best-preserved Old Town in perhaps all of Europe. Called the City of A Hundred Spires, and for good reason, its square is...

We arrived in beautiful and historic Vienna with our Rick Steves guidebook in hand, the self-guided walking tour of the city bookmarked...

For a while, our travel years were a little out of balance. My wife and I usually had an ambitious summer itinerary that often included...

Way back in the day, Christine and her family took a road trip to Quebec City, the entire family stuffed into their 1970s station wagon:...

From a distance, I’ve always thought the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain looked like an elaborate sandcastle. On my 2006 visit to the...

In my recent novel, Land’s End, a young brother and sister are kidnapped by their estranged father, a man they’ve only seen sporadically...

Belfast, Northern Ireland was our home base for a week in 2019 for my sister-in-law’s wedding. We’d been to the Republic of Ireland a...

I’ve has this theory for a while now that being able to train our eyes on a distant point is good for our mental health. In other words,...

Amsterdam was the third city on our whirlwind 2013 European adventure, and the first that I’d fallen in love with. I liked our days in...

Our first European adventure as a couple, back in 2013, took us to five countries in two-plus weeks, beginning with a couple days in...

I’ve written about coastal Maine before, specifically about our road trip up to Bar Harbor, and there was no shortage of great seaside...

Sweden had been on my radar for a long time. During my MFA program, I’d spent three summers studying in the south of France and Madrid,...

Call me a technophobe, but I’ve always worried about all the photos people take and have on their phones, or PC hard drives, or stored in...

We joined my brother, his wife, and their then-eight month old daughter on an ambitious Hawaii adventure in 2018. They’d been three...

Throughout the first half of the 1970s, my family owned a camper and lot at a summer trailer park on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire...

This past September marked the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ classic album Abbey Road, which included the iconic tracks...

It was an ambitious trip abroad this summer—a week in Belfast, Northern Ireland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, then almost three weeks...

It wasn’t particularly easy to get to, which might be why it’s such a hidden gem. From Boston we laid over in Houston, then on to Belize...