Travel and Adventure

Dan had mentioned his novel idea before our summer trip to Switzerland: we’d go backpacking, in the Alps — no huts. Bring your sleeping bags and bivy sacks, he said.

A quick travel guide to Scotland’s wonderful capital city.

Meeting a fishy relative in beautiful Cairngorms National Park.

From hiking the Speyside Way to mountain biking in Torridon, Scotland is the land of outdoor adventure.

You can have your camembert, langres and morbier, friend.

The two fishermen who delivered the scallop shells walked right through the back kitchen door of the restaurant like they were barging into their own home, big and fishy-looking.

The Isle of Skye is not your average island getaway.

The average Scottish sheep weighs between 100 to 300 pounds, lives ten to twelve years, breeds seasonally and, somewhere inside its stupid, thick skull, thinks it’s an absolutely magnificent creature. This is because, in Scotland, it has no natural predators.

As we drove toward the Storr we could see the cliffs and the jagged rock pinnacles rising in the distance, partially obscured by clouds.

We drove north toward our next destination, the Isle of Skye.

Robert Burns once wrote: “Oh thou, my Muse!

Foraging, butchering, and cooking a meal with chef Tom Lewis of Monachyle Mhor in the Scottish Highlands.

On a road trip your car becomes your home.

Scottish craft beer is in its infancy.

Welcome to our sprawling travel journal of Scotland’s environmental, cultural and culinary riches. Over the next two weeks we’ll be sharing our collection of 50 essays, videos, anecdotes, photo essays, travel guides, recipes, poetry and tall tales gathered during one hell of a trip.

Glasgow: where you can visit a 600-year-old university one moment and pound lagers at a blues bar the next.

The Freedom to Roam, unburdened of fences and posted signs, angry landowners and angrier guard dogs, is a shared dream among adventurers. Scotland codified it in 2003.

Peering over the Hudson River from between two iconically New York red brick buildings, the brand new Hotel Hugo SoHo features a mix of modern urban escape and industrial warmth.

We toured 12 distilleries in a five-day blitz, asking everyone we met to walk us through the bourbon-making process. Here, you’ll find all of the steps that go into making America’s unique take on whiskey.

Willett Master Distiller Drew Kulsveen doesn’t have time for bullshit. It’s not something he has to tell anyone.