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So, the lies. At the end of 2009, I posted a list of All-American Travel Resolutions for 2010. It included things like driving cross country, living in Alaska for the summer, and, finally, visiting the Grand Canyon. When I wrote that post, I did really believe that, by Labor Day (which, by the by, is [...]

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Whether it’s 5 a.m. or 5 p.m., I know what you’re thinking on this spring day: what kind of trouble can I go get into tonight? Well, maybe not trouble–but a bit of fun, right? I mean, seriously, it’s spring. You know you’re feeling sassy. In honor of getting into trouble, having fun, or just [...]

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Whether it’s for their kitsch factor or their elegance or that they just have an unexplainable X factor–so, an “it” place–there are certain museumshotelsfieldsVFWhalls that just scream, Rent me for the night! Let’s have a shindig! Some are close to home and others are destination party places we encountered while traipsing around the country.  Here, spots [...]

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That’s One Swell Silver Screen

A loud pop and it was lights out. A nor’easter can shred a day’s plans in no time flat (especially when that day’s plans included some electricity-required online research and writing). So, with Saturday upended, I checked my phone for local movie listings and, hands firmly on the steering wheel, headed to Cedar Lane Cinemas to [...]

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There is but one activity that takes less planning than a walk…and that is a nap. We’ll celebrate the joy of a good travel nap in the coming weeks but, first, we look back on some memorable moments of putting one foot in front of the other. It’s a low effort, high reward kind of [...]

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Hope on the Boardwalk

I met Ojenga last January on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. On winter days, the seagulls outnumber the people wandering the boardwalk by about 1000 to one. But Ojenga’s out there drumming, day in day out, unless it’s really really freezing. When I met him, he’d just logged his 17th year on the boardwalk. Business had [...]

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You still haven’t finished your shopping?* What am I going to do with you? Well, get to it. Here, handmade goods from or about or somehow just having to do with states from Montana on through to Wyoming. (Hankering for the AL to MO set? I got your back.)
Montana: Hmmm, I may need to read [...]

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Some days, it feels like we’re all overthinking travel. So, with my nieces in town for Thanksgiving, I decided to get nine-year-old S.’s fresher-than-most (in several different yet usually charming ways) and back-to-basics take on travel in the U.S. Her sister, six-year-old J., was kind enough to  contribute the artwork. She was paid in pretzels.
So, [...]

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What is everyone thinking about these days?  Food. Of course. Holiday traditions, laden tables, houses redolent with sautéed and simmered love.
There’s something cooking in every kitchen in America this time of year, but it’s likely to vary a little from place to place. After all, in those early Thanksgiving days, people pretty much ate what [...]

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From the Overpass

It really doesn’t matter where this photo was shot*. Looking down on the tracks from an overpass, it struck me that this view is so quintessentially American. It’s a stretch of wild running alongside industry and can-do. It also just makes me want to go, to see what’s out there. While I’ve looked down from [...]

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