Hawaii - Maui

Among the most fascinating places on earth, the Big Island is also one of the most diverse, with eleven different climate zones that range from rain forests to black-sand deserts and active volcanoes.

Kauai is Hawaii’s oldest island. Its nickname, the Garden Isle, scarcely does justice to its wilds: with a tropical air, ample rainfall, taro fields, a jumble of jagged peaks and rushing waterfalls, Kauai will seemingly never be tamed.

Los Angeles has always been a crucible for new ideas in the arts, design and lifestyle, and with one third of California’s population living in the metropolitan area’s 4,850 square miles (and speaking 220 languages, from Khmer to Russian), this...