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Welsh Travel Myth #1: You need a car
In November 2022, I spent two weeks in Wales—or Cymru, in the native Welsh language. There are quite a few misperceptions and myths about this small but mighty nation, and what it’s like to travel and spend time there. One of the biggest ones I hear is that you really need a car to experience…
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Yma o hyd. We are still here.
Traveling to Wales in November isn’t at the top of most people’s bucket list. And it wasn’t on mine, either. But when Wales qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1958, it shot straight to the top. You might think it odd because I’m not even much of a football fan. But…
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: There is still immense joy
In the spring of 2022, I ticked an item off my bucket list: taking a circle tour around Lake Superior—the wildest, most remote of the Great Lakes. I started my trip in Houghton, Michigan, and drove westward in a clockwise circle. I know that Minnesota is the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but Minnesotans will have…
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: An unexpected encounter
I had an unexpected encounter in norther Wisconsin, staying entirely off-grid for the first time.
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Lake Superior Circle Tour, 2022: Houghton and the Porcupine Mountains
When we set aside our daily routines for a few days or a week at a time, when life isn’t prescribed by work or school or social obligations, who are we? I remember when my family took vacations in a quiet nook of the northwestern corner of Michigan’s Mitten. I would find myself wishing for…
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Taking the Long Way
After the year I’ve had, I’ve made the Chicks’ The Long Way Around into something of a personal anthem. A year ago August, I told my partner of 10 years that I was leaving him. It was one of the most painful things I’ve ever done. Writing about it is still painful. But last summer,…