Travel

PaperCity contributing editor and bestselling book author Diane Dorrans Saeks has traveled in India since she was a young student, crisscrossing the subcontinent to study Mughal architecture, intricately handcrafted textiles, exuberant interiors, Raj-e…

I have been captivated by Costa Rica since my first visit over a decade ago. That backpacking trip was filled with so many firsts: seeing my first monkey and toucan, hiking to a jungle waterfall, and my first (and likely last) rum-and-coke in a can. I’…

Until the early 1980s, the only flights to arrive on the Hawaiian island of Maui had to first stop through Honolulu as the gateway to the rest of the islands. Even then, those flights were a rarity. So millions of tourists chose to simply stay put on O…

When I told my Dallas friends that I had just come back from a five-day trip to Grapevine, Texas, I was met with several incredulous variations of “What things are there to even do in Grapevine?” I understood what they meant because I would have answer…

Opened in the 101-year-old Farmers and Mechanics National Bank Building, the Kimpton Harper Hotel brought 226 modern rooms and suites, an Italian restaurant, and a chic penthouse bar to downtown Fort Worth in June 2021. Busy with life in Dallas, it had…