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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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Most Vacation Souvenir Spending Happens in the Final 24 Hours of a Trip. Behavioral Scientists Say That’s Not a Coincidence
Ask almost any traveler where their vacation budget actually went, and a disproportionate share of unplanned spending traces back to…
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Kids Now Choose the Family Vacation Destination More Than Parents Do. Travel Companies Call It Kidfluence and Are Building Entire Strategies Around It
Having kids doesn’t just add logistics to travel, it fundamentally rewires who makes the decisions and why the trip happens…
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A One-Point Higher Location Score Raises a Hotel’s Room Rate by 12%. Star Ratings Barely Move the Number at All
Most travelers filter hotel searches by star rating first, treating it as the primary signal of quality, then look at…
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Tanglewood Alone Generates $103 Million a Year for the Berkshires. That’s What Turned a Fading Mill Region Into a Cultural Destination
Western Massachusetts’s Berkshire County spent much of the twentieth century as a fading industrial region, its paper mills and textile…
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Tucson Retirees Can Live Comfortably on Around $350,000 in Savings. In Scottsdale, That Number Barely Covers the House
Phoenix and Scottsdale get most of the national attention as Arizona retirement destinations, but a large and consistent share of…
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Hilo Gets 151 Inches of Rain a Year, More Than Any Other American City. That’s Exactly Why Most Big Island Tourists Never Stop There
Most visitors to Hawaii’s Big Island land at Kona, on the dry, sunny west side, and never make it to…