Adam Skolnick

Islands Magazine - June, 2004 It’s the third inning and Cuba’s Estadio Latinoamerico is nearly empty, which doesn’t dampen my thrill. After all, it’s eight o’clock, 80 degrees, and a soft breeze gently tickles the flags above the bleachers. It is an idyllic Havana evening and a perfect night for baseball, so I’m not about to complain. [...]

Spa Magazine Worldwide Guide - Winter/Spring 2007 When we first stepped into the Bodyworks courtyard in Ubud, Bali, I felt I was in for something extraordinary. The surrounding stone buildings were 15th century replicas rife with tropical plants and flowing fountains. We were led upstairs by a lovely Balinese woman in a sarong to a treatment room [...]

Spa Magazine - May-June 2005 The mere mention of Bali inspires bliss flashbacks from those who have sampled its sweetness, but there is one town where Bali’s essence is at its most accessible. Where everything great about it is magnified. This is your insider’s guide to the vibrant spiritual culture, delicious, healthy cuisine and mind-body indulgences not [...]

Spa Magazine - Nov/Dec 2004 It’s still very early when Ibu Sriyani, 54, rises from her cot in a Jakarta slum. Early enough that the sky is black and the dense jumble of plywood and corrugated tin, huddled in the shadows of a luxury apartment complex, is eerily still. She takes care not to wake her family, [...]

Weddings Magazine - October 2004 I’ll start with a disclaimer. I am an American and while moderately acquainted with Indonesian culture through books and ten weeks of travel from Sumatra to Bali, I carry the cultural soul and perceptions of a Westerner. Also, I just got un-engaged, which normally isn’t even worth mentioning, but this is Weddings, so [...]

Spa Magazine - February 2007 It was still early and already searing hot when we left Aqaba along Jordan’s Red Sea coast and drove into the desert – a landscape of layered mountains and crumbling canyons, a never-ending sequence of beige on beige. Ibrahim, my 32-year-old guide and companion for the next 10 days, steered us through [...]