3 International Destinations to Search Out Exotic Birds

Their songs fill our backyards, forests, jungles and coastlines—a mysterious language of music. They inspire dreams of flight, pollinate plants, disperse seeds, and keep ecosystems in balance. These soaring avian dinosaurs are also an existential reminder of 150-million-years of evolutionary biology. And their health as a species is a bellwether of our own planet’s fate […]

Go Wild! Cut Loose in the Northern Suburbs

You don’t need to fly off to Vegas to get crazy. If you need to shake life up a bit, there are plenty of ways to have mad fun right here on our gorgeous (and sometimes naughty) North Shore—everything from skydiving and motorcycle riding to shopping for haute couture and eating outrageously indulgent desserts. So […]

The North Pole Trek of a Wilmette Father-Son Expedition Team

They scale the world’s tallest mountains. They navigate shifting sheets of ice on the Arctic Ocean. They trek the treacherous North Pole.   And they do it all together. They are the father-son expedition team of Rick and Taylor Sweitzer. As we sat on the porch of their home in Wilmette, Rick, 56, and Taylor, […]

Take a Hike! Active Travel Vacations

Fit women and their families are flocking to exciting, active vacations in record numbers, and the North Shore is no exception.   Whether you heli-hike the Canadian Rockies (that’s hiking with the help of a helicopter to get you to remote mountain terrain), walk on glaciers in South America or bike through Europe, adventure travel […]