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The Best Burger in the West
Burgers might just be the king of all American food. And yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that they’re originally from Hamburg, Germany—hence the name—but we have taken their original idea and made it our own. We perfected it in a way, so it might as well be ours. And how often is the location of…
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One of These Trees Is Not Like the Others
The West Virginian winter wasn’t quite what my midwestern mind had imagined. In fact, it didn’t seem much like winter at all. The inches of snow, crisp, dry air, or cutting ice-cold wind was nowhere to be seen. It certainly appeared to me like I was plucked right out of a pile of raked leaves…
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Twelve Hours In… Sheboygan, WI
Not everyone always wants to take cross-continental road trips or spend hours on a plane to have new experiences. In this series, I look for those towns, and other rarely talked about locations that may be worth a quick day trip or weekend adventure. I spend twelve hours in a place, exploring, talking to locals,…
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Twelve Hours In… Pella, IA
Not everyone always wants to take cross-continental road trips or spend hours on a plane to have new experiences. In this series, I look for those towns, and other rarely talked about locations that may be worth a quick day trip or weekend adventure. I spend twelve hours in a place, exploring, talking to locals,…
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Why I Became a Travel Writer
Being a travel writer is a very specific niche in the writing world. Because of this, I often get the question, “what made you want to do that?” Well, how I was raised, my experiences, the places I went, and where I came from are all intrinsic parts of the answer to that question. I…
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In the Wake of a Giant
There is a strange intimacy that comes from going on a road trip with another person. No, not the type of intimacy that lovers have, but an inimitable closeness born from two people cooped up together for hours upon end in a metal cocoon on wheels, whirring toward a destination. There is an unexpected familiarity…
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