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Savannah is my kind of city. Walkable. Unhurried. More front porches than agendas. You don’t visit Savannah to check boxes. You visit to slow down and remember what a GREAT day can feel like.
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Livingston, Montana still has its railroad town bones, old buildings and mountains rising just beyond town.
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I’m increasingly fascinated by places built where humans probably shouldn’t have been able to live comfortably.
Deserts. Arctic islands. High mountains. Floodplains.
The architecture tells you what people were fighting: heat, cold, water, wind or distance.
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One travel rule worth trying:
Visit the market before the major landmark.
You’ll learn what people eat, what things cost, what grows nearby and how the city actually moves before you see the part built for visitors.
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Lake Natron doesn’t look like most lakes.
Its mineral-rich water can turn deep shades of red and orange, while the surrounding landscape feels almost otherworldly.
It’s the kind of place that reminds you how strange Earth can be without leaving Earth.
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Hard to pick a bad time of day on the Amalfi Coast. Morning, afternoon or sunset?
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Hard to look at Mont-Saint-Michel and not think about how differently people once built for time.
Not years.
Centuries.
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You probably assume Mont-Saint-Michel was built from a plan.
Wrong.
It began in 708 as one small chapel on a tidal rock. A bishop named Aubert said the Archangel Michael ordered it three times and, on the third visit, pressed a finger through his skull. The skull is on display in Avranches today, hole included.
Benedictine monks arrived in 966. The church on the summit began in 1023, propped on four crypts because the peak was too narrow to support it.
The 17 years is what got my attention. La Merveille, three stories of Gothic halls on the north cliff, went up between 1211 and 1228... every granite block ferried more than 20 miles from the Chausey Islands across 46-foot tides.
The choir collapsed in 1421. They rebuilt it and finished in 1521.
Eight hundred years of work, and nobody who started it lived to see it finished.
Victor Hugo called it France's Great Pyramid. We design an ugly concrete parking garage to last about 50 years.
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On Yakushima, the trees are the reason to slow down.
Ancient cedar forests cover much of this Japanese island, and walking through them feels less like sightseeing and more like entering a place that runs on a different clock.
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Alaska is one of the most extraordinary places in the United States. If you ever get the chance to go, take it.
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I'm still settling back in at home after 17 days of cruising to and from Alaska with my husband and our 20-month-old.
We saw glaciers. We took a Gold Rush-era train ride. We saw whales, sea lions, and deer. We visited a raptor center. We walked through a forest.
All with a toddler.
A lot of people thought it was too adventurous to go on this trip with our daughter. And it's true: some days were challenging.
But we know the memories will last our lifetimes. And our daughter will grow up adaptable and curious because we show her the world.
And besides, the more I adventures I have, the more I have to write about.
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High in the Chilean Andes is a former copper mining town built on terrain so steep that stairs became its streets.
Sewell is a reminder that some towns weren’t designed around cars at all. They were designed around the mountain.
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There’s an abandoned diamond town in Namibia where the desert is slowly taking the buildings back.
Walk through Kolmanskop today and you’ll find rooms half-filled with sand, as if the dunes simply came through the front door.
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Off the coast of Nagasaki sits an abandoned island once packed with coal miners, apartment blocks and concrete towers.
Hashima went from one of Japan’s most densely built industrial communities to nearly empty in a matter of years.
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Shirakawa-go is a great example of how some villages can outshine cities.
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Bergamo feels like two different cities.
Down below, it’s modern and busy.
Take the funicular up to Città Alta and suddenly you’re walking past old stone streets, medieval buildings and piazzas behind centuries-old walls.
Milan doesn’t feel very close anymore.
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Görlitz, Germany looks like the type of place filmmakers would have to build from scratch.
Instead, the old town is real, beautifully preserved, and still somehow overlooked by most travelers heading through Germany.
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Romanesque churches have a weight to them that newer buildings just don’t.
Thick stone walls. Rounded arches. Small windows. Massive towers.
Some of these places have been standing for nearly 1,000 years, and you can feel that history when you walk inside.
In this video, I explain why travelers are so drawn to Romanesque architecture.
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A city with a good river walk already has an advantage.
You get the bridges, boats, old buildings, cafés, people watching and sunset all in one place.
There’s just something about a city built around the water.
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