Where are the best Mexico City neighborhoods — places to stay in Mexico City that are also safe for travelers? I am very happy to help you with that! Mexico City is one of the world’s largest cities and it can be overwhelming at first. Mexico City is one of my favorite cities in the
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January 2019 wasn’t my first trip to Mexico — but it was my first time escaping winter in Mexico. I went to Isla Holbox and Mérida and loved it so much, I came back to Mérida to live for two months in winter 2020, followed by a month of more Mexico travels. Mexico forever, I
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If you’ve never visited cenotes in Mexico, you have a lot of fun ahead of you! These freshwater sinkholes are the best swimming spots on the planet — and you can only find them in one place. There are more than 6,000 cenotes in Mexico, most of them located on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
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Looking for a town on Cape Cod that has it all? Come with me to Provincetown, baby! This fun town on the northern tip of Cape Cod has it all. You’ll find more things to do in Provincetown than you thought possible! You probably know P-town as a legendary LGBTQ getaway. If you’re gay and
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What makes a good destination for first-time solo female travelers? You want a destination that thrills you — but as a first-timer, you don’t want to bite off more than you can chew. My first solo trip ever was to Buenos Aires, Argentina when I was 23 — and while I was already an experienced
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And with December 2021, we have the month of Omicron. Good times, huh? Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever go back into old monthly recaps to see how I reacted to events. And I do. I’ve gone back to March 2020 a few times. We had our flights booked long before Omicron was identified: Prague
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The good times may be sweet, but the bad times keep you humble! I firmly believe that, and that’s why I always write about my worst travel moments of the year. I love looking back and remembering the bad, scary, and oftentimes funny moments that happened on my travels. This is one of my favorite
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I once took a personality quiz and found out that I thrive with audience-based accountability. If I’m setting out to achieve a goal, I need people to be watching. That’s how I’ve been with reading. I’ve always been a big reader, but ever since I started documenting everything I read on this site, I kicked
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My favorite travel moments of the year took me to interesting places. A spa overlooking Mont Blanc. A hot waterslide pool on the edge of the Black Sea. A gymnasium full of vaccine-administering National Guardsmen in Lynn, Massachusetts. And Old Town Square in Prague, where prices on beers were slashed in half to cater to
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After a difficult 2020, 2021 was supposed to be the joyous return to travel! I imagined a hedonistic year of getting to visit all the places I had put off when COVID hit. Plus some new ones. 2021 turned out to be much quieter than I intended. I didn’t leave Prague until late April, when
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