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I’m Kate
For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
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The Best Part of a Trip May Happen Before You Leave — Researchers Measured the Happiness of Anticipation
Multiple academic studies on the psychology of anticipation and happiness, including widely cited research published in the journal Applied Research…
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Why Politicians Asked “Will It Play in Peoria?”—How One Illinois City Became Middle America’s National Litmus Test
Peoria, Illinois earned an unusual place in American political and cultural vocabulary through the 20th century, when the phrase “will…
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A 17-Mile Roadway Crosses Open Ocean Twice — Here’s What Makes the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel So Unusual
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, connecting Virginia’s Eastern Shore to the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metro area, stretches 17.6 miles across the mouth…
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You’ve Probably Eaten Hot Sauce Made in New Iberia, Louisiana—But Most People Miss the Town Behind the Bottle
New Iberia, Louisiana, a small city of roughly 28,000 people in the heart of Cajun country, has been home to…
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Why Pay Ski-Season Prices? A Summer Week in the Colorado Rockies Costs a Fraction—and the Mountains Are Still There
Colorado’s high-country mountain towns, including Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, and Telluride, see lodging rates drop by 40% to 60% or more…
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Paducah Paid Artists to Rebuild a Flood-Damaged Neighborhood—20 Years Later, It Became the City’s Main Tourist Draw
Paducah, Kentucky’s Lowertown neighborhood, a historic riverfront district that suffered chronic flooding and decades of disinvestment through the late 20th…
