I was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Grew up in Canada — the kind of childhood that involved hockey rinks, cold winters, and a vague awareness that there was a very old country somewhere across the Atlantic that I came from.

I’ve been a journalist, a technical writer, a corporate communications director, a content strategist at two major technology companies, and somewhere in between all of that, a photographer who ran an award-winning photo business in St. Louis and Dayton.

Jackie and I moved to New Bern, North Carolina nearly three decades ago and never left. The coastal South became our home — which is how a Scottish-born Canadian ended up becoming one of the more authoritative voices on the Outer Banks, the Crystal Coast, and the Cape Fear region.

We lived in Nova Scotia for several years. We’ve been back to Scotland more times than I can count. I’ve stood on the Glenfinnan Viaduct watching the Jacobite emerge from Highland mist, tasted single malts on Islay that I still think about, e-biked through the vineyards outside Chinchón, and had dinner at a table for 144 in a Madrid palace. I’ve also hung gliding at Jockey’s Ridge, paddled the Black River past 2,600-year-old trees, and eaten the best chowder of my life in Tatamagouche.

Atlantic Destinations is where all of that goes. Not a bucket list. Not a greatest hits. A conversation with travelers who are still curious, still capable, and still adding destinations to the list.