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One Day At Christkindlmarkt In Bethlehem, PA

December 7, 2021

One Day At Christkindlmarkt In Bethlehem, PA

15 Books For Female Travelers

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15 Books For Female Travelers

3 Days On The Upper Peninsula

November 9, 2021

3 Days On The Upper Peninsula

The Stanley Hotel: Spirited Night Tour

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The Stanley Hotel: Spirited Night Tour

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10 Things To Do At Badlands National Park

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The Ultimate Salem Fall Bucket List

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12 Fun Things To Do In Cape Breton Highlands

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How To Spend 3 Days In Asheville, North Carolina

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15 Fun Things To Do In Medora, North Dakota

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11 Fun Adventures In North Maine Woods

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June 29, 2021

One Day In Concord, Massachusetts

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old water, older trees, and a sky doing its best w old water, older trees, and a sky doing its best work right before dark. some places make you feel like a guest in something ancient. this is one. 🌅

📍 Wakulla Springs, FL
Lamar Valley is where Yellowstone stops being a po Lamar Valley is where Yellowstone stops being a postcard and starts being a nature docuseries. Bison traffic jams, wolves you have to squint for, elk drama at dawn. 🐺

🚫 Please make sure to keep your distance. All photos were taken with a zoom lens. 

📍✨Save this for your trip to Yellowstone so you can come back and brag about how many animals you got to see 😉
Utah has a mountain where you’re allowed to just…d Utah has a mountain where you’re allowed to just…dig for your own topaz. And somehow nobody talks about it.

Topaz Mountain is exactly what it sounds like, a stretch of high desert where you show up, pick a spot in the rhyolite, and crack rock until little crystals fall out. No guide, no fee, no gift shop. Just you, a hammer, and the slowly dawning realization that you’ve become a person who collects rocks on purpose.

Came home dusty, sunburned, and weirdly thrilled about a handful of crystals. 

10/10, would dilly-dally through the desert again.

📍 Save this for your Utah list 🔨💎✨
Bryce Canyon is the rare national park you can gen Bryce Canyon is the rare national park you can genuinely do a lot in one day! I only had 1 day at Bryce and here’s what I did…

Sunrise at Sunrise Point, the Queen’s Garden → Navajo loop down into the hoodoos, the overlooks at midday, and Silent City glowing at golden hour. That’s the whole day, no wasted miles.

📍 Save it for your trip to Utah 🏜️
(Fair warning: it’s the kind of place that ruins you a little for regular scenery 😉)
spent a summer on the Maine coast and now every ot spent a summer on the Maine coast and now every other place has to file a complaint 🌊🌲🦞⛵️
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