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I’m Kate
For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
I’m a mom of 3, a full-time romance author, and I’ve been to more than 40 countries and nearly all the states.
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Everyone Becomes a Slightly Worse Version of Themselves at the Airport. There’s an Actual Explanation for Why.
Airports reliably produce behavior — shortness with strangers, impatience in lines, a general edge — that the same people would…
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Your Body Does Something Specific and Measurable After Hour Six of a Long Flight. Almost Nobody Prepares For It.
Cabin air on a long-haul flight is pressurized to the equivalent of roughly 6,000 to 8,000 feet of altitude, and…
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Every Travel Influencer Photo You’ve Ever Seen Was Taken Between 6 and 8 AM. Nobody Tells You That Part.
The empty infinity pool, the deserted temple courtyard, the beach with nobody else on it — almost none of these…
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Havre, Montana Never Became the Next Whitefish. Talk to Anyone Who Lives There and That’s the Whole Point.
Havre, Montana has about 9,300 people, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail yard that’s employed generations of families, and almost…
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Baltimore Is Not The Wire and It Is Not the Inner Harbor Either. Almost Nobody Outside Maryland Has Seen the Real Version.
Baltimore’s national image is stuck between two extremes that don’t actually describe most of the city. There’s the Inner Harbor…
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Everyone Passing Through Flagstaff Is Headed to the Grand Canyon. The People Who Live There Wish They’d Stop for a Minute.
Flagstaff, Arizona sits at 6,910 feet, is covered in ponderosa pine forest, and gets real snow most winters — nothing…