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I didn’t plan to go to Chattanooga this year, but when a town is named “best town ever” by Outside Magazine, it catches my attention.  Chattanooga earned that honor not once, but twice .  And I still wasn’t planning on going to Chattanooga until I went to Knoxville and Nashville in June and remembered how much I love

Traveling is a giant obstacle course and making it easy is an art.  You have to deal with jetlag, language barriers, new customs, and transportation delays.  If you think that’s easy, good for you: you’re already an experienced traveler!  And if that’s a challenge, I’m sharing my best travel tips so you can fake it

          Any last thoughts?  You may decide you don’t need that, but don’t assume you can squeeze it into a weekend. I don’t typically return to countries quickly because I believe there is a lot more in the world to see, but 

The summer before my senior year of college, I was going stir crazy with a huge desire to go abroad.  I had just determined I would be able to graduate a semester early, meaning that I would not have a final Spring Break (there went my Costa Rica plans).  I had a chunk of money