The Actual Cost of Visiting a National Park: Why I’m Outsourcing My Summer Vacation

January 4, 2017

When planning my 2017 travels, I was all a-flutter about the prospect of a late-spring pilgrimage to one of America’s crown jewels: Yellowstone National Park. It was the first national park and to this day remains one of the most-visited. And this year, I was going to visit Yellowstone. Yes. Yes I was.

Note my use of past-tense verbs.

Cruise Travel

When Things Go Wrong: UnCruise (Mis)Adventures

June 25, 2015

In the past couple of years, the blinding light of media attention has turned on the cruise industry, taking joy in exposing every mishap on the high seas. And why not? Legitimate tragedies aside, a story about Carnival passengers being forced to poop in a bag? Yeah. People click on that. I know I follow those stories with sick fascination. Admit it. You do, too.

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