We climb the steps onto the painted porch and pause to consider a fist-sized gash in the concrete. Had this been any other house, the damage might have been caused during a storm or a move. But this is the Martin Luther King Jr Montgomery home where the newly minted pastor lived during the landmark bus […]
Remember when we all learned that “Iceland is green, and Greenland is ice?” Well, we were lied to, my friends! Because Iceland is also ice for much of the year. Then, other times it’s literally all sunshine and rainbows. (And, honestly, probably unicorns. It’s just an effing magical place.) But when you’re vacationing in a
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On a map of Ireland, the tiny village of Waterville sits about as far west and south as you can get. Even Irish people shake their heads and assume you’re mangling the name of high-end crystal capital Waterford when you mention Waterville to them. So forgive us for having no idea what we were in
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Well, well, well. Here we are. All limbs accounted for. Zero nights spent in jail. Passports still in hand (knock on wood). We’re about to head from jaw-dropping, put-it-on-your-list-now Prague to Provence in — le sigh — the South of France. All said, this makes four countries in a little more than two weeks. And
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Well, well, well. Here we are. All limbs accounted for. Zero nights spent in jail. Passports still in hand (knock on wood). We’re about to head from jaw-dropping, put-it-on-your-list-now Prague to Provence in — le sigh — the South of France. All said, this makes four countries in a little more than two weeks.
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The wind whips little pebbles of ice at my eyes, but you could not pay me to close them right now. Our little inflatable boat is zipping along the craggy, skyscraper-high wall of ice that is the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in Iceland (yeah, we can’t pronounce it either) and weaves between glowing blue icebergs that float
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You could literally be 15 feet away, buying Maloney a bottle of water — and if the airport gate attendant says line up, Maloney lines up. Your bags are abandoned where you left them, and she is NOT going to let you cut in line. She knows it’s weird, but THERE ARE RULES! The gate
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Exactly one month from now, the Traveler Broads touch down in Salvador, Brazil for an epic New Year’s party in beachy Bahia, where we’ll be drinking it up in our white linens and working on our tans — that is, if all goes to plan. Despite having had our flights and hotel booked for more
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Getting from Thira to the Old Port — the departure point for most cruises and caldera tours — means walking a steep, winding, cobblestone path for half an hour. There will be donkeys (for taxiing people back up the hill). There will be shit. Here’s how to deal. Step 1: Ask a ticket lady the
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Ahhh, Greece. Beautiful sunsets. Ocean breezes. Gorgeous, lazy beach days with the cool blue Mediterranean lapping at your toes (if you’re into that sort of thing, you perv.) Sounds idyllic, and it is. But first you have to decide which island to visit. And with 6,000 to choose from (227 if you insist on one
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