Everyone dreams of sipping on a spritzer overlooking the Amalfi Coast in August and having that romantic vacation that parallels a 1960s Italian film. If you haven't yet, stop reading and check your pulse as you may not be alive. Having gone through great lengths to achieve said dream and having the time of my life, here are few things I learned along the way that would only have further enhanced those experiences. 1. Timing is Everything After traveling to many vacation destinations I've learned that timing is everything. Try and book that ticket for as close to the shoulder of the peak season as you...

It's 2019 but judging by the setting, the drinks, the guests and our host you wouldn't know it.  Like a conductor controls the tides of music through the ebb and flood of strings, our muse is in the driver's seat again. Everyone is casual and settled in for another good one.  The setting is relaxed as the five of us watch another sunset fade into a vacuum. The veranda overlooking this stretch of the Mexican coastline has seen many like him before. Skipping from story to story, drink to drink and laugh to laugh, he has us all hooked. A personality so big that two human vessels wouldn't be...