Amy Drew Thompson | Freelance Journalist and Editor

Two hours or so paddling the river and I was relieved to find that I had, indeed, married the right person.

If the cost of travel hinges on the cost of a barrel, how do meeting professionals offset the consequence of yet another inconvenient truth?

They can. They should. And they do. Get over it.

Beaches smeaches. How about a side of this glittering city you never knew existed?

Miami’s C. Madeleine: A fashion Utopia where superstars, and the pros paid to dress them, get their retro on.

No holosuites. No replicators. (Not yet, anyway.) But this visionary developer’s project is a nanobot shy of shovel-readiness.

Longing for splendid sunsets, sublime diving and a taste of the Jimmy Buffet lifestyle? Sail away to Key Largo.

Family-friendly Orlando, perennial city of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” has a deliciously demented dark side.

Oh, but for the days when losing a few pounds was the most challenging of our new-year objectives.