Active Travel

Finding My Bliss on Boats and Beaches: Now With Beer!

When I thought about the kind of trip that would best serve my current needs, I very quickly figured out what I wanted as well as what I did not want. Having spent the last three months in Chicago (and New York City, Miami, Charlotte, Madrid and Barcelona), I definitely was not interested in another city break. I knew I wanted to be either on the water or on the road, as those are the two places I am most happy.

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City Breaks, Featured

Fat in a Bikini: The South Beach Experiment

I have long associated South Beach with the thin-life. To me, South Beach means: beautiful tan women with dental-floss-thin thong bikinis walking down the sidewalk. Which is why, a couple of years and several more spaghetti-and-wine-induced pounds later, I found myself pondering the horror of exposing myself—my fat, pale self—to the bright sun of Miami’s South Beach.

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