City Guides
City Guide: Paris [Updated: 2023]
A field guide on where to eat and drink around Paris, France.
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Travel Tips
The best ways to support your fellow Instagram travel bloggers
For the longest time, my account was around a cool 150 followers – made up of friends and family members. Whenever I traveled, I took pictures joking I was “doing it for the gram” while fully accepting that I’m not an Instagramer. I prefer to be in the moment when
Croatia
In Pictures: Dubrovnik, Croatia
A few pictures from my trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Gear
Outlier Slim Dungarees Review: THE one-bag travel pant?
Summary Outlier Slim Dungarees are hands down the best one-bag, minimalist travel pants you can buy. Buy Now at Outlier ProConSpill/weather/odor resistant Fabric is on the thin side, so not very suitable for extremely cold weather Extremely comfortableThey are pretty expensiveLook nice, can pair with most stylesCan take
Booze
How to stock your bar cart for the holidays
Oh, the Holidays, there’s nothing quite like getting hammered and pretending to enjoy your family’s company. I jest…kind of. But with the weather starting to get precarious and the daylight virtually gone, drinking indoors becomes the de facto activity. And if you’re looking for a way
Booze
What is Amaro? Demystifying the Italian Herbal Liqueur
You walk into that new, hipster-looking bar that just opened up in your neighborhood. The bartenders are carefully grinding fresh nutmeg over their cocktails, looking dapper as hell in their waxed canvas aprons. Behind them, an impressive wall of backlit bottles. Some look familiar, others more exotic. If you look
Booze
Recipe: Ginger Simple Syrup
Sure, you can buy simple syrup at the store for a few bucks. But all you need is sugar and water and you can make your own right at home. It takes about 10 minutes to make and another 20 minutes or so to cool down. That’s it. Better
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City Guides
City Guide: Portland, Oregon [Updated: 2023]
A field guide on where to eat and drink around Portland, Oregon.
Travel
48 Hours of Christmas Markets in Colmar
I’m sitting on a bus up to NYC, swiping through various “Best of” lists, trying to plan my annual Thanksgiving trip abroad. It was late October, and all I had was a plane ticket to London; neither Steph nor I could figure out exactly where we wanted to go.
Travel Tips
It’s Official, Credit Card Travel Insurance is a Scam
On my annual thanksgiving trip abroad this past year (this time to Paris), I had maybe one of the most nightmarish travel experiences of my life. It’s a long story for another post, but the short version is that about 3 hours into my flight, Air France decided that
North America
The New Landmarks of the American Road Trip
“What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off. Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.”– Jack Kerouac “Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to
Travel Tips
The Best Way to Grind Your Coffee
Every morning, I engage in a sacred ritual. It’s a ritual that most people perform, one where you make the world suddenly turn and life resume. I’m talking, of course, about coffee. My coffee ritual might sound a little strange to you, however. First off, I use an