Festivals of the musical variety draw people from far and wide each and every summer to locations such as Indio, California (Coachella); Manchester, Tennessee (Bonnaroo); and Chicago (Lollapalooza). For a time, one festival also drew tens of thousands to the capital city of the first state: Dover, Delaware. Firefly Music Festival hasn’t been held since 2022, but when it was rockin’ and rollin’, it was one of the premiere alternative/rock/pop extravaganzas out there.
Read MoreThe City of Angels is just about everything I imagined it would be — a lively, sprawling mass of palm trees and expressways full of endless possibilities.
Read MoreAhh, the open road. You make up a special playlist, cram every last thing you might possibly need into the car, and set off for parts unknown, ready for adventure around every turn.
Read MoreColonia Del Sacramento was founded in 1680 and sits in the southwestern portion of Uruguay — a country that, unfortunately, I imagine isn’t on many bucket lists when someone plans a visit to South America.
Read MoreUnless you're truly a free spirit (or just impersonating one for a few days/weeks) you probably like to have a plan of attack when you hit the road or take to the sky with your sights set on some destination — new or old, familiar or strange.
Read MoreOn the crisp cusp of a mid-March morning, my vehicle’s headlights were pointed at Detroit’s Ambassador Bridge and the thought broadcasting through my brain was something along the lines of “Am I really doing this right now?”
Read MoreBeing serenaded in Arabic by a blind man playing the oud in a Jordanian desert was not a memory I ever suspected I’d make.
Read MoreNow, along with Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland; Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the U.S.; and the whole continent of Australia, I have added another destination to my travel bucket list: the Pitcairn Islands.
Read MoreYou know how you get in those moods sometimes, where you’re just like, “I kind of want to feel sad right now,” and it’s seemingly for no particular reason?
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