Category: Travel
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Nashville
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white limozeen, broadway, a cautionary tale, and the nights we went out anyway — nashville, tennessee nashville is the kind of city where you can book a flight on tuesday and by thursday you’re at american junkie with a cheap beer in your hand and a live band doing exactly…
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Ireland
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i arrived one day late. after the boston detour, the missed connection, the hotel voucher, the mapparium — i finally landed in dublin. the cohort was already there, already settled. i showed up with a full night’s sleep, zero regrets, and a bruised heart i hadn’t told anyone about. there…
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Go to Iceland. Eat the Chocolate.
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October 2018 · Golden Circle + South Coast · 9 Days The first thing you see when you clear customs at Keflavik is a floor-to-ceiling comic book mural — massive, chaotic, superhero panels stacked on top of each other like the whole wall is about to explode off the building.…
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Traveling Looks Different Now
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MCO > LAX with a four-month-old, my mother in the next seat, and an apology to every parent I ever side-eyed. I am at the gate at Orlando International, about five months postpartum and approximately one Starbucks shy of being human, watching my mom wrestle a stroller-car seat, a carry-on,…
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Vienna, Six Years Later
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First time I met Vienna was December 2018. Bundled up in my yellow puffer outside the Gloriette — fingers wrapped around a takeaway Melange, watching my breath fog up against the palace. I was hooked. Fast forward six years and I was back. Boy, the coffee was just as good.…
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Cuba: Five Days, Two Duffel Bags
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Americans can’t fly to Cuba as tourists. That was true in 2018 when I went, and it’s still true now. There are twelve approved categories of travel — religious, educational, journalism — and the one we picked was Support for the Cuban People. Which means: we couldn’t just go for…
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Costa Rica on $280
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Costa Rica in June. Pouring rain. My friend Jaci and I, twenty-something and broke-ish, three checked bags between us and a Google Doc of color-coded plans we were already losing track of. This was 2016. Back when I still thought “jungle adventure” meant something I’d seen in a movie. We’d…
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