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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 Eastern Shore of Maryland Is Where Watermen and Second-Home Buyers Are Fighting Over the Same Twenty Miles of Water
Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the stretch of Chesapeake Bay coastline separated from Baltimore and Washington by the Bay Bridge, has been…
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Crested Butte Became a Ski Town Millionaires Wanted. Gunnison, 30 Minutes Down the Road, Stayed the Same Price It Was in 1995
Crested Butte, Colorado and Gunnison sit roughly 30 minutes apart in the same valley in the Colorado Rockies, share the…
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Door County, Wisconsin Is the Vacation Spot Wisconsin Residents Treat Like Their Private Peninsula. Outsiders Are Only Just Catching On
Door County occupies the narrow peninsula that separates Green Bay from Lake Michigan at the far tip of northeastern Wisconsin,…
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People Who Move to Tucson Either Stay for Life or Leave Within Two Years. Almost Nobody Is in Between
Ask around in Tucson, Arizona long enough and a consistent pattern emerges among transplants: people who move there either commit…
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Eureka Springs, Arkansas Is a Victorian Town in the Ozarks That Became a Queer Sanctuary in the Middle of the Bible Belt
Eureka Springs sits deep in the Arkansas Ozarks, a town of roughly 2,000 people built into a hillside so steep…
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Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston Are Not Interchangeable Texas Cities. Locals Get Genuinely Annoyed When Visitors Treat Them That Way
Outsiders sometimes talk about “visiting Texas” the way they’d talk about visiting a single region, but Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin,…
