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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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The Oregon Coast Has Nothing in Common With Portland. Visitors Keep Assuming It Does
Portland’s national reputation — liberal politics, food carts, tech workers, a certain quirky urban identity — has almost nothing to…
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Biloxi Gets All the Casino Attention on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The Towns on Either Side of It Are Where Locals Actually Go
Biloxi’s casino strip, rebuilt and expanded significantly after Hurricane Katrina’s devastating 2005 landfall, dominates most outsiders’ mental image of the…
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Sturgis Brings 500,000 Motorcycles to South Dakota for One Week. Rapid City Spends the Other 51 Being Something Completely Different
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally draws several hundred thousand attendees to the Black Hills every August, a genuinely staggering number relative…
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Florida’s East Coast Gets the Hurricanes and the Traffic. Retirees Increasingly Choose the Other Side for a Reason
Florida’s Gulf Coast — Sarasota, Naples, and Fort Myers specifically — has pulled ahead of the Atlantic coast as the…
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Lexington, Kentucky Has More Horses Per Capita Than Almost Anywhere in America. It Also Just Works as a City.
Lexington sits at the center of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region, surrounded by horse farms whose black plank and white board fences…
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Edina and Hopkins Have Better Restaurants Than Half of Downtown Minneapolis Now. Nobody Visiting the Twin Cities Knows That.
Visitors to the Twin Cities almost universally plan their trip around Minneapolis proper and maybe a walk through downtown St….