2025, Can You Believe We're Still Alive? Travels Far & Wide From a Year That We Survived

Well, well, well; w-e-l-l. You know, that’s one of those phrases I picked up somewhere along the way that I return to again and again, but for which the source material is lost to the ages. Where the hell did I get it? Just like the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, the world may never know. But can you guess what the world is about to know? That’s right! The deepest, darkest, most intimate thoughts, recollections, and reminiscences on the year that was right here on All Things Wanderful.

General TravelLogan T. HansenJanuary 6, 2026travel, travelogue, travel blogging, travel guide, travel recommendations, travel inspiration, travelspiration, travel ideas, travel writing, travel reviews, travel tips, travel appreciation, travel diary, travel planning, year-in-review, Universal Studios, Universal Studios Hollywood, Jaws, Steven Spielberg, Kai Ryssdal, Marketplace, NPR, Las Vegas, Sin City, Luxor Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Cajun, Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis, Biloxi, To Kill a Mockingbird, Nelle Harper Lee, Harper Lee, Monroeville, Monroe County, Old Monroe County Courthouse, Gregory Peck, Mrs. Teresa' Homemade Treats, Los Angeles, City of Angels, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Pier, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Dodger Stadium, Freehand Hotels, Freehand Chicago, Freehand Los Angeles, Freehand, hostel, hostel stays, Boston, Boston Calling, Harvard, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, All Time Low, The Maine, Cage the Elephant, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy, all-nighter, Disney World, Orlando, Florida, Tron, Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Tower of Terror, Guardians of the Galaxy, Expedition Everest, Alice in Wonderland, Euro trip, cheap airports, cheap travel, Canada, Minnesota, Northwest Angle, Alert, Canadian Forces Station Alert, All Things Wanderful, Chicago, Miami, New York, George Washington Hotel, Flatiron District, Bourbon Street, French Quarter, Ruby Slipper, The Natchez, Oklahoma City, Dorothy Gale, Beverly Shores, Michigan City, Gary, Indiana, Michiana, Chicagoland, West Michigan, Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, South Shore Line, Maycomb, Maycomb County, Truman Capote, Confederacy, 2026, 2025, ten-year anniversaryComment

One Spooky Town to Visit in Each of the 6 New England States

Sporting some of the best fall foliage anywhere in the nation, New England is kind of the place to be when you start to feel that crisp, crisp air creep back in. The color-changing parade that falls across the region like a patchwork quilt every September and October is undoubtedly one of the biggest draws for anyone looking to put a fall getaway on the books, but let’s also remember that this is spooky season, and New England is hardly wanting in the arena of things that go bump in the night. From haunted houses and hotels to ghost-riddled cemeteries and ships, you can scare your pants off properly six ways to Sunday.

North AmericaLogan T. HansenOctober 17, 2024travel, travel blog, travel ideas, travel inspiration, travelspiration, travel guide, travel advice, travel planning, travel recommendations, travel tips, travel itinerary, travel blogging, travel bucket list, New England, haunted, autumn travel, autumn getaway, autumn inspiration, fall travel, fall getaway, Halloween, fall, autumn, New England Inns & Resorts, New England With Love, One CrafDIY Girl, Bangor, Maine, Stephen King, Derry, It, Whitney Park Historic District, Mount Hope Cemetery, Hannibal Hamlin, Al Brady, American gangsters, paranormal, paranormal activity, ghost stories, ghost hunting, The Tarrantine, Bangor Public Library, Broadway Historic District, Thomas A. Hill House, Samuel Dale, Isaac Farrar Mansion, Bangor Opera House, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, The Shining, The Overlook Hotel, The Overlook, Omni Mount Washington Hotel, Carolyn Foster Stickney, Delbert Grady, Jack Torrance, The Princess, The Princess Room, Joseph Stickney, Room 314, Livermore, ghost town, White Mountains, logging, logging history, logging industry, Daniel Saunders, Charles Saunders, U.S. Route 302, Stowe, Vermont, Ski Capital of the East, Mount Mansfield, Brass Lantern Inn, Green Mountain Inn, Chester A. Arthur, Gerald Ford, Boots Berry, New Orleans, Emily's Bridge, Gold Brook Covered Bridge, Fall River, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Lizzie Borden House, Andrew Borden, Abby Durfee Gray, Abby Borden, Emma Borden, New Bedford, murder, Thrillist, Thrillist Travel, Frommer's, Zac Thompson, Oak Grove Cemetery, The Quequechan Club, Abram's Rock, Swansea, Native American, Gilded Age, White Horse Tavern, William Faulkner, Dark Shadows, Carey Mansion, Seaview Terrace, Edson Bradley, Julia Bradley, Ghost Hunters, ghost tour, Barnabas Collins, Ruggles Avenue, Rockwell, Somebody's Watching Me, White Lady, Union Cemetery, Connecticut, Easton, New York City, haunted cemetery, haunted inn, haunted house, murder house, Donna Kent, Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren, Ed and Lorraine Warren, Graveyard: True Hauntinigs from an Old New England Cemetery, Lindley Street, Bridgeport, Red Eyes, Cosmic Society, Cosmic Society of Paranormal Investigation, paranormal investigation, Earle Kellog, Route 59, demonologist, 1960s, 1960s televisionComment

What It's Like to Fly Over Lake Michigan in a 9-Seater (& How You Can, Too!)

Airplanes come in all shapes and sizes, but it’s not every day you find yourself aboard a nine-seater headed over one of the largest fresh water sources on the planet. That is, unless you decide to enlist the services of Cape Air, a smaller airline with routes in various parts of the U.S. and the Caribbean.

Kayak Has Mapped Out the Ultimate Spooky U.S. Road Trip

Driver beware, you’re in for a scare… because the folks over at Kayak have put together a truly terrifying cross-country road trip stretching from New England to the West Coast. From haunted inns to creepy cemeteries, and old state hospitals to abandoned amusement parks, the 7,500-mile trip truly checks off every spooky box a Halloween-loving traveler could dream up.

North AmericaLogan T. HansenOctober 16, 2020travel, kayak, Kayak.com, kayak.com, travel advice, travel guide, road tripping, road trip, road trips, cross-country road trip, Halloween, travelspiration, travel inspiration, Sleepy Hollow, New York, Philipsburg Manor House, Philipsburg Manor, Old Stagecoach Inn, Waterbury, Vermont, National Register of Historic Places, bed and breakfast, bed & breakfast, Margaret Annette Henry, Fort Knox, Prospect, Maine, paranormal, paranormal activity, Pine Hill Cemetery, Hollis, New Hampshire, New England, Blood Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, Salem witch trials, ghost stories, ghost town, ghost tour, Seaside Shadows, Mystic, Connecticut, Cumberland, Rhode Island, Salem Historical Tours, Abel Blood, Headless Horseman Bridge, Ichabod Crane, Pocantico River, Old Dutch Church, Old Dutch Burying Ground, Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground, Katrina Van Tassell, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Al Capone, Terror Behind the Walls, Edgar Allan Poe, Salubria Manor, Stevensburg, Virginia, Maryland, Baltimore, Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, West Virginia, Kegley, Chimney Rock State Park, Bulldog Tours, North Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, Madison Square, Savannah, Georgia, St. Augustine Lighthouse, Florida, Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, Alabama, Bell Witch Cave, Bell Witch, Adams, Tennessee, The Blair Witch Project, Blair Witch, Ultimate Spooky U.S. Road Trip, John Bell, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, haunted Comment

From Planning to Execution, Road Trips Never Seem to Go the Way You Think They Will

What’s the first thing you do when planning a road trip? Before picking out stops along the way, before deciding which places you’ll spend the night in, before figuring out how many miles you’ll travel and how many days and nights you’ll be away — before any of that — the very first thing you do is you give your road trip an epic name equivalent to the significance of the marvelous adventure you are about to embark upon.

General TravelLogan T. HansenFebruary 14, 2019travel, travelspiration, travel inspiration, travel guide, travel advice, road trip, road trips, trip planning, Vermont, University of Vermont, Burlington, Hartford, cabin in the woods, misadventures, social media, Ontario, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, East Coast Extravaganza, Great Lakes Expedition, east coast, U.S., United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Ottawa, North Bay, Great Lakes, Sault Ste. Marie, Lake Superior, Ann Arbor, Ben & Jerry's, Waterbury, Boston, Providence, Connecticut, New Haven, Stratford, Two Roads Brewing Company, New York City, New York, NYC, Camp Crystal Lake, Blairstown, New Jersey, Riverside, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Green Mountain State, Green Mountains, State College, Pennsylvania, 2015 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament, Pac-12, basketball, Arizona, Oregon, travel planning, cross-country road trip, Roadtrippers, roadtrippers.com, adventure, life on the road, 2015 Comment

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