Sean Conway

When my wife and I were in the mountain village of Murren, Switzerland back in 2015, I discovered that the local sport shop offered...

I grew up spending my summers and other school vacations with my cousins Mike and Chris, often staying at their father’s house—my Uncle...

I’m standing in a cluttered minefield of sheep shit on a grassy bluff above the wild Atlantic Ocean on Scotland’s rugged Isle of Skye. A...

My brother has lived in California now for nearly fifteen years, and so I’ve been traveling to the west coast to visit a couple times a...

I wonder sometimes where, exactly, my love of travel adventure came from. In past posts, I’ve written about the ambitious and adventurous...

Christine and I spent some of our Christmas break up in Rangeley, Maine, a meandering four-hour drive in which one can actually feel time...

As a graduating undergrad student at UMass Lowell, I’d been torn between continuing at the school to complete a Master’s in Education, or...

I spent my formative coming-of-age years summering at Salisbury Beach, a community on Massachusetts’ north shore, the last town before...

Over the course of the one hour, forty minute drive from our home in northern Massachusetts to beautiful Holderness, New Hampshire on...

The French Alps had been on our list for years, always popping up on Best Of articles online and in travel books, in Instagram feeds,...

I’d been to Ireland three times before, but this would be the first for my brother, so it was an opportunity for me to show him around a...

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...