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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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The Food That Changed How People Eat Forever — And It Was Never at a Restaurant With Stars
Some people come home from a trip and never touch their old grocery list again. Not because they found a Michelin-starred chef — because they found a grandmother’s kitchen in Oaxaca, a fish market in Osaka, or a street corner in Hanoi. Here’s what actually happens to a person’s relationship with food when travel strips away everything familiar.
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What Travel Writers’ Jobs Actually Look Like — Not the Instagram Version
The travel writer life looks, from the outside, like an endless stream of press trips, five-star hotels, and expenses-paid adventures. The people who do it for a living have a much more complicated story to tell — about the economics, the grind, and what it costs to turn wanderlust into work.
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The Honeymoon Destinations Couples Say Weren’t Worth It — And What They Wish They’d Done Instead
Honeymoon destinations carry enormous expectation weight, and some of the most popular ones fail to deliver in ways that couples are often too embarrassed to admit afterward. Here’s what people are actually saying, years later, about where they went — and what they’d tell their past selves.
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What Beach Towns Actually Look Like in January — The Locals, the Quiet, and the Off-Season Economy Nobody Talks About
The same towns that are gridlocked in July become entirely different places in January. The seasonal workers are gone, the restaurants are half-staffed, the beach belongs to people who actually live there — and the off-season economy that makes summer possible is running on fumes.
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Why So Many Americans Are Discovering Their Own Country in Their 30s and 40s — After Years of Only Looking Abroad
For a certain generation of American travelers, international travel was the aspiration and domestic travel was what you did when you couldn’t afford anything better. Something is changing — and the shift has less to do with money than with a different understanding of what travel is actually for.
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The American States Most Drivers Fly Over That Are Actually Worth an Entire Trip
Most Americans have a mental map of the country that marks certain states as transit zones — places you pass through on the way to somewhere else. Some of those states have been holding extraordinary road trip territory the entire time.
