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In Praise of the Second Prettiest Places
My best travel tip going into 2026.
Dec 31, 2025
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How Covid Really Changed Travel
Aug 21, 2024
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Is Travel Journalism Finally Taking Its Subject Seriously?
Nov 7, 2025
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Space Tourism: Katy Perry Did It for the Gram
May 3, 2025
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That's One Leaky Hotel
Aug 10, 2024
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Is Travel Journalism Finally Taking Its Subject Seriously?
Waking up from the dream vacation...
Nov 7, 2025
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The Federal Government Is Coming for Your Beach Vacation
The place we go to forget all of our problems is becoming one of them.
Sep 2, 2025
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Is Trump All In on Biden’s Transportation Agenda?
A DOT press release shows that beyond the distracting claims and hyperbole, Trump's administration is piggy-backing on many of his predecessor's…
Jun 27, 2025
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Something Is Going on at Amtrak
On the prospect of privatization and crony capitalism
Jun 2, 2025
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Space Tourism: Katy Perry Did It for the Gram
What a short, strange press trip it's been.
May 3, 2025
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What Is a Billionaire's Triangle?
Hint: It both doesn't exist and is taking over South Florida's shoreline.
Apr 15, 2025
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We love the beach today because of this early 19th century painting
And you can view it this spring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mar 28, 2025
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The Trump Administration Is Not Trying To Ease Your Travel Headaches
Last fall, I launched a series of posts here on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL…
Mar 12, 2025
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On overtourism and preventing it, attracting tourism and changing it
A roundup of my recent work: on White Lotus for Grist, Ghent vs. overtourism for CityLab, and redefining the beach of paradise for the NY Times
Feb 25, 2025
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Flung
Deconstructing tourism. From Sarah Stodola, author of 'The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach.' #questioneverywhere
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