As part of my EPIC vacation giveaway win with IHG Hotels & Resorts, I've spent the past months traveling to destinations I only dreamed about visiting. While I've traveled extensively in the past 38 years--to about 35 countries and counting!--the Middle East was an experience like no other. I visited the UAE during a three-week…

Pack your bags and prepare yourself for a very long flight, but there is no doubt, if you're traveling to Dubai, it will be the trip of a lifetime. I've always wanted to visit this magical faraway desert oasis. After spending six nights there, I'm so glad I took the journey because I had a…

To many New Yorkers, Texas is a foreign entity, with its cowboys, Southern hospitality, and massive homes priced similarly to a studio apartment in NYC. The landscape is quite different from the Northeast, as is the weather. However, one city in the Lone Star State is currently #trending, with an influx of new residents flocking…