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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.
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Bardstown, Kentucky, Has 13,000 People and Calls Itself the Bourbon Capital of the World for Good Reason
Welcome to a charming town with 13,000 residents. It’s in the heart of the American South. This place is the…
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Some Countries Have Five-Star Resorts Feet Away From Roads With No Running Water. Economists Call This the Tourism Enclave Problem
Fly into certain beach destinations across the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, and parts of Africa and the airport transfer bus can…
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Anthony Bourdain Convinced an Entire Generation of Travel Writers That Street Food Was the Real Cuisine. Fine Dining Never Recovered
Before the 2000s, the default measure of a serious food travel writer was how many Michelin-starred restaurants they could get…
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Most People’s Bucket Lists Never Get a Single Trip Crossed Off. Psychologists Call This the Bucket List Paradox
Somewhere in most people’s phone notes or a dusty physical notebook is a list of trips they intend to take…
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People Pay to Tour Chernobyl, Auschwitz, and the Killing Fields Every Year. Researchers Are Still Arguing About Whether That’s Healthy
Dark tourism, travel specifically to sites associated with death, disaster, and atrocity, has grown from a niche academic curiosity into…
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Ketchum, Idaho, Is Where Sun Valley’s Money Actually Lives, and Almost Nobody Outside Idaho Knows It
Many think they know Sun Valley, but the real story is just down the road. While tourists enjoy the slopes,…
