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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.
I’m a mom of 3, a full-time romance author, and I’ve been to more than 40 countries and nearly all the states.
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Why You Always Feel Worse on Day 3 of Any Vacation
You planned this trip for months. You survived the flight, checked in with a grin, and spent the first two…
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What Budget Travel Influencers Don’t Show You About ‘Traveling for $30 a Day’
The $30-a-day travel content has colonized the internet, and tens of thousands of people have tried to replicate it and discovered that something important was missing from the formula. The math works, technically. The life it produces is a different story entirely.
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What Summer Road Trips With Kids Actually Look Like — The Logistics, the Fights, and the Memories Made Anyway
The Instagram version of a family road trip is golden hour at a scenic overlook. The actual version involves someone crying before you’ve left the state, a rest stop that becomes a fifteen-minute negotiation, and a motel breakfast that will somehow be remembered as one of the best meals anyone ever ate. Both things are completely true.
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The Psychology of Fear About International Travel — Not Xenophobia, the Actual Reason Some People Can’t Make Themselves Go
Millions of Americans have the money, the passport, and the stated desire to travel internationally — and never go. It’s not just laziness or busyness. For a significant segment of the population, international travel produces a specific kind of fear that has a real psychological profile. Understanding it is more interesting than dismissing it.
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The Beach Town Housing Crisis Nobody Is Connecting to the Vacation You Just Booked
The person who cleaned your rental property last weekend drives 45 minutes each way to get there because they can no longer afford to live in the town where they work. The teacher who grew up in that beach community moved to a city two years ago because every house she could have bought became a vacation rental. Your vacation is connected to this. Here’s how.
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Americans Who Spent a Month in Japan: The Specific Things That Surprised Them and the One Thing They Couldn’t Adjust To
Japan has become the most aspirational international destination for American travelers. Millions go for two weeks. A smaller group has gone for a month or more — long enough for the novelty to wear off and the actual cultural differences to emerge. What did they find? And what, for all their admiration, still broke their brain?
