Adam Skolnick

It hit me as I traversed the sinuous toll-road that hugs the cliffs south of Tijuana.  Though I’d driven Baja California a dozen times, I had never once enjoyed a glass of wine here. Baja’s spectacular beaches practically scream for cerveza. But I’d recently heard about Las Brisas del Valle, a new inn owned by a [...]

If you travel to the southern end of the Inner Hebrides archipelago in Scotland, you’ll find a rocky, windswept isle with more than 130 miles of spectacular coastline, huge communities of otters, seals and marine birds, and 3,500 people who love their Scotch whiskey. And they should. After all, their island’s name, Islay, is synonymous with single malt production, and whiskey is the hub of the local economy.