With a close friend or two, with my boyfriend, or alone. Those are the typical ways I travel. So, when I arrived in Lima, Peru, to find out that my Contiki Holidays media trip – their inaugural South America excursion – would be packed with 27 people, I wasn’t sure what to think. I sat …
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I’ve been to Disney on average about three times a year for the past four years; that includes both US Disney parks and those abroad. So, when we jetted down to Orlando to meet with our Disney Weddings planner, we were really hankering for a new view of the parks. The Happiest Place on Earth …
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Governors Island has become the latest corner of the city where sweaty, music-loving hotpants-wearing New Yorkers go to escape the heat. While the ferry ride from Downtown Manhattan is a mere 10-15 minutes at most — yes, less than the Staten Island ferry — the island’s untouched and underdeveloped feel gives it a decidedly remote …
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Cooling off with an iced coffee and a Japadog, I stumbled into a sleepy design shop in an up-and-coming street of Vancouver last month. While I was expecting the same kind of hipster knick-knacks and ironic swag of my favorite Brooklyn stores, I was accosted with a different sensation here. Every nook and corner of …
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That’s exactly what I’m doing this summer. I’m a horrible chicken. I jump ten feet high on haunted house rides; forget walk-through Halloween houses, I could never get near one of those. I get weak in the knees on particularly tall bleachers. It helps if I’ve had a gin and tonic or two before I …
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