Greetings from Martha’s Vineyard! I’m super pumped about this edition of Photo of the Week — why? Because it was my first week shooting with my new camera! And what a place to do so. Martha’s Vineyard was bursting with energy this week as visitors flocked from far and wide to take part in Fourth of…

June is a pretty big month around these parts — the 9th (yup, this post is a tad late, what else is new) marked four whole years in Wanderland. Four years since the day I took off from New York on a one-way ticket. Fourty-eight months since alexinwanderland.com went live. One thousand, four hundred and sixty…

Happy Sunday from Albany, New York! I spent the week in my hometown with Wanderland Vice President Tucker Baackes — who just so happens to be the cutest cocker spaniel in town — enjoying some down time between trips and taking care of all that pesky real life business that I spend most of the year…

Stepping off the bus that I’d called home for the past ten hours, I stopped for a moment to stretch and reflect on my coast-to-coast journey. A few days before, I’d played in the black sand of a beach on the Southwest coast of Guatemala. After stops in both Antigua and Guatemala City, I hopped the…

Greetings from Los Angeles! Well, more accurately, from LAX, from where I’ll soon be taking off again for the East Coast. This week absolutely flew by. I kicked off the week crossing from Tennessee into Kentucky, where I soaked up as much as I could of the Bluegrass State in my less than forty-eight whirlwind hours…

Close your eyes and picture a beautiful beach. A hundred people will have a hundred different visions of exactly what that paradise would look like. One thing the majority will probably have in common? Silky white sand. And believe me, I love those picture perfect paradises as much as the next daydreamer. But over the years…