Rome has its neighborhoods. Paris has its arrondissements. Mexico City has its colonias and getting them wrong costs you an entire trip. CDMX has roughly 2,000…
Author: Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks
Ethan Brooks is a travel journalist and photographer based in Austin, Texas. He has covered adventure destinations, travel gear, food tourism, Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia for over a decade. His guides focus on honest, experience-based advice for serious travelers.
The Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America share the same latitude but most travelers treat them like three separate decisions made in three separate browser tabs. That…
Oaxaca keeps appearing on “best cities in the world” lists and travellers who’ve been there will tell you it’s not hype. The problem is that most…
Twenty minutes south of Cancun airport, the Riviera Maya quietly hides its best version of itself. Puerto Morelos sits between two of Mexico’s most visited destinations…
Playa del Carmen sits between two destinations that get all the attention and that is exactly why it works. Cancún promises a beach holiday and delivers…
Two thousand dollars. Ten days. Three islands. Before we booked, nobody online could tell us whether that number was realistic or delusional. The problem with USVI…
Nevis doesn’t advertise itself. There are no cruise ships pulling into port, no resort billboards on the highway, and no highway to put billboards on. The…
Saba has no beaches. No resorts. No cruise ship pier. For most Caribbean islands, that would be a death sentence. For Saba, it’s the entire point.…
St John asks more of you than most Caribbean islands. No direct flights. No resort wristbands at the door. Just a ferry ride from St Thomas…
St Croix is the largest US Virgin Island, yet it consistently gets the least attention. Travelers fly over it on the way to St Thomas or…