Looking for travel opportunities and dining recommendations that don’t involve drinking? Read on for options for sober travel and alcohol-free dining.
Touring Peru's Sacred Valley with Choose Life Sober Adventures offers opportunities to see stunning landscapes and soak up Peruvian culture. Read on to share the adventure. When I visited Machu Picchu last summer, I expected the famous structures to intrigue me. But...
Experience a 7-course, fine-dining vegan meal at Workshop Food + Drink in Portland. Read on to discover why Workshop offers some of the best vegan food in Portland. In February, well-known Portland chef Aaron Adams opened a Cuban-inspired Portland vegan restaurant....
Looking for vegan sushi in Vancouver? Or how about a sober bar in Vancouver? Find them both at COFU Pressed Sushi on Granville Island. More than 10 million tourists visit Vancouver’s Granville Island annually for its well-known artisan market. While shopping,...
A former alcohol and drug counselor opened a sober bar and launched a new concept. Now Chris Marshall takes his sober bar academy across the country. Read on for more about how he's offering a non-alcoholic alternative for entertainment. Hundreds gather at a rented...
SCP Hotel Redmond is an ideal hotel for a wellness retreat in Oregon. You'll find veg food, hangout and work spaces, good non-alcoholic drinks, an impressive gym, nature, and a yoga studio. The person at the reception desk gave me a ticket for a welcome drink as I...
Looking for a spot to socialize and hang out in New York City but want to avoid alcohol? Check out Hekate, New York City's first sober bar—with a bit of a witchy vibe. When Abby Ehmann opened a bar called Lucky in New York’s East Village seven years ago, she hoped to...
Just an hour outside New York City, you can visit Stepping Stones, the home of AA founder Bill Wilson and his wife Lois, founder of Al-Anon. “It’s not a good tour unless somebody cries,” my guide Levi jokes after showing our group of four around Stepping Stones, a...
Choose Life Sober Adventures helps nondrinkers experience the best in sober travel. Here's the lowdown on an action-packed Costa Rica trip. I’m balanced in a large tube, my legs over the front, leaning back, holding onto two stracps as I float down the Rio Negro in...
Gardenview Estate B&B in Washington offers a refuge for sober travelers. Get close to nature and yourself at this vegan inn. Sitting out on a balcony, looking at pine trees and listening to birdsong while waiting for a hot vegan breakfast to be delivered to my...
At Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in the Berkshires, you can participate in a self-discovery workshop or take a private retreat on this alcohol-free campus. When I visited Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in January, the 125-acre campus in Massachusetts’...