The Thermal Club, near Palm Springs, California, is a private race track, featuring million dollar garages, a BMW Performance Driving School, a clubhouse, a pool, tennis courts, a spa, catering, a kid’s club, and individuated concierge service. In other words, it’s heaven. (Though a very expensive heaven.) I stayed there, and drove there, and wrote this for the summer issue of Departures.

Northern Nevada’s vast tracts of affordable land, plentiful sunishne, and proximity to Silicon Valley have turned it into the new new Detroit: a place to build the things for the Internet of Things.

My latest reportage for Departures. Click on the thumbnail above, and then click it again, to view it. You can also procure your own copy if you have an AmEx Platinum Card, which you probably don’t.

A new museum exhibit in Turin celebrates ten decades of outrageous, gorgeous, functional designs from legendary carrozzeria, Zagato.

ESCAPE–architect Hermes Mallea’s latest coffee table design/travel book–showcases the most enviable era of Caribbean travel, and charts the invention of our American sun/sea/sand/fruity drink vacation fantasy. (My feature includes lots of photos.)

In addition to creating some of the most advanced, exclusive, and valuable cars every built, the Bugatti family was famous for creating sculptures and custom furniture that defined the Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts movements. Click on the crappy scan above (and then click on it again) to read my piece on a museum exhibit of their collective work, in DEPARTURES.

“Resistanbul” My first piece for American Express’ Departures, on artists, the Turkish uprising, and a doomed and dilapidated New Jersey house. (And starring everyone’s favorite Jaguar/Land Rover PR macher, Stuart Schorr!)