The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

We love to travel, it’s what this site was born from but at its heart is the excitement of adventure and discovery both far and near. While we share exotic destination hometowns, they couldn’t be more different – Hawaii, synonymous with beautiful beaches and swaying palms is about as antithetical as you can get to Manhattan’s towering skyscrapers and endless streets. And yet both have millions of visitors each year who seek out their own adventures among the streets we mindlessly meander and the sites we often pass unobserved. So we thought we’d open our own eyes and discover the voyages closer to home. As a ruby footed heroine once said, “There’s no place like home…”