Aimee Heckel’s passion for storytelling has brought her around the world as a journalist, writing award-winning articles about Haiti and Uganda. Aimee studied international journalism at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and she majored in journalism and German at Colorado State University.
When she's not covering Colorado for Fodor’s Travel Guides and writing for SpaTravelGal.com, she travels and volunteers for Think Humanity, her family's nonprofit that helps refugees in Africa.
Heckel also blogs for HuffPost Weird News and writes feature stories, a fashion column and fitness column for the Boulder Daily Camera in Colorado.
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Add this to your bucket list: Watch a rocket launch from the sands of Cocoa Beach.
Take a tour down iconic Highway 1 and nearby highways in a way you’ve never done it before: a road trip from San Francisco to San Diego specially designed between electric-vehicle charge spots at scenic...
Colorado may be landlocked, but it has some beautiful beaches and bodies of water. Here's a unique road trip from northern Colorado to the south, hitting some of the state's best beaches along the way.
Colorado is famous for its ski resorts, but it's also home to dozens of natural hot springs in those mountains. Here's a road trip loop that hits all of the best hot springs in Colorado.
Here's a different take on the popular road trip from Denver to Las Vegas: a loop that will hit a ton of other attractions along the way, including the Grand Canyon, Lake Havasu, hot springs, ski towns and more.
Experience Colorado from top to bottom when you visit Fort Collins and travel through ski towns, mountains, wine country, hot springs and historical monuments.
On your next Iceland vacation, try these unique and authentic local dishes, from bread baked underground by geothermal heat to a shot of pure whey from an ancient dairy farm in the countryside.
