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Travel Vicariously With Me This Year
So, you know those subscription boxes that have been getting so popular? The ones where every month or every quarter a package arrives full of cute stuff for your dog or your kitchen or your bookshelf?...
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The Sad, Strange Story of Car Canyon
In the small town of Page, Arizona, sandwiched between famous Lake Powell and the almost-as-famous slot canyons, there’s a place the locals call Car Canyon. You won’t find it in the guidebooks or hear...
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The Weird, Wonderful Tale of the Whistler Train Wreck
In 1956, a train crashed just outside the town of Whistler and somehow the crushed-up train cars ended up in the forest, yards away from the tracks and each other. For years, this site was a mystery....
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The Strange, Beautiful Hotel Ruins of Southern Croatia
Yesterday, we visited Kupari, Croatia, where a former military resort with five hotels overlooking the sea was attacked and destroyed in the war. The hotels still stand today, bombed and burned,...
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Marvelously Weird Metelkova in Quirky Ljubljana
(I didn’t get a chance to share this back when we were in Slovenia last year, but you know how I love abandoned and repurposed places – so here’s one from Ljubljana!) When Slovenia gained independence...
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Dolský Mlýn: Czechia’s Abandoned Wilderness Mill
Tucked away among the towering rock formations and sandy pathways of Bohemian Switzerland—the national park on the northern border of Czechia—you’ll find a series of hiking trails leading down to a...
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Stay Overnight in a Prison-Turned-Hostel in Luzern, Switzerland (Beautiful...
Welcome back to Beautiful Spaces—a series of posts in which I talk about the apartments, hotels, hostels, & B&Bs we stay in all over the world. It all started in 2013 when I realized that my...
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Exploring Unspunnen Castle, Interlaken
On our last week in Interlaken, before we boarded trains and then planes to Italy and then Georgia, we made our way to yet another castle ruin that I’d had no idea was here. This time, the destination...
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Hiking from Kotor to Vrmac Fort
I love Kotor. Let’s start there. The expansive bay surrounded by towering mountains, alternating gray slabs of rock and bright green foliage. The tiny red-roofed town that’s so much bigger inside than...
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Hiking Switzerland: Sentier des Toblerones
The best part of being in Switzerland all summer is simply this: The glorious hiking. From high-Alpine treks above the tree-line to forested strolls through gorges and over waterfalls, I really can’t...
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