PHOTO ESSAY: The Pope visits Philadelphia, The week before
The pope visits a city and for two or three frenzied days we receive updates on our timelines about highlights of speeches and photos of crowds. I know this, because I’ve […]
Category Archives: City Living
Please stop using this awful travel writing cliché. Sincerely, a reader.
Maybe you guys can identify with me. There is one city so close to my heart. It’s personal; I did my best growing there. After I did my growing, it spit […]
A Tale of Six Cities
Author note: This post was inspired by an absolutely beautiful essay of the same name by Erica Ho on The Hairpin. If you are a travel blogger too, I’d love […]
The Car or the Road?
I cancelled my car insurance yesterday. This is how it went: I dial 1-800-INSURANCE-COMPANY and answer all the compulsory questions to get to customer service. “Thank you for calling INSURANCE […]
The Bad in the World
Danger. It’s a word I think we’ve all become inundated with these past few years, especially in the context of our travel lives. Drug cartels in Mexico prompted the US […]
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