Alexis Averbuck

Destination California The moment you arrive in the Golden State, you may suspect you've been cast as the ingenue in a road-trip movie. Everything seems staged for a script riddled with exclamation points: no way are they going to surf those skyscraper-sized waves at Mavericks! That can't be the...

On the Road JEFF CAMPBELL Coordinating Author Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park (pi 102) has the only trail signs l've seen warning of 'hot lava!' Truth is, stumbling over miles of blackened lava till I reached the molten rock entering the sea gave me 'chicken-skin.' Even long past dark, it was...

Lonely Planet Greece is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Roam through the hilltop ruins of the Acropolis, climb to the monastery-capped rock pinnacles of Meteora, or ferry across to one of the...