Jamaica

A week at Secrets Wild Orchid in Montego Bay — adults-only, all-inclusive, and exactly the kind of trip I needed after a stretch of intense work travel.

Jamaica runs on its own clock. The resort was polished and the beach was perfect, but the best parts were the edges — walking into town, the local restaurants, the conversations with staff who’d lived on the island their whole lives.

Sometimes you travel to see the world. Sometimes you travel to stop seeing it for a while. This was the second kind.