Katrina Woznicki – Flung

The Culver Hotel: A Contemporary Time Capsule

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:48:48 +0000

Flatiron buildings aren’t common in Los Angeles, a city more known for horizontal mid-century sprawl than for the 1920’s desert boomtown at its true core. A few weeks after relocating from the New York City area to Culver City, a neighborhood next door to Santa Monica and a brief drive south of Beverly Hills, I was stuck in traffic—in true Southern California fashion—and found myself in the shadow of a very vertical flatiron building that looked like a slice of […]

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Wallaby and Green Ants: A Culinary Odyssey in Australia’s Northern Territory

Katrina Woznicki — Sun, 13 May 2018 17:35:21 +0000

One of the best meals in my life to date occurred when I was so jetlagged that I poured a little wine into my lap because my brain and arm had miscalculated the distance between the glass and my face. Thankfully, forkfuls of food got where they needed to go. Despite fatigue and confusion about not only my current time zone but also my hemisphere, my taste buds knew what they knew: This meal was like no other. After three […]

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The Roxbury Motel: Imaginations Unleashed in the Catskills

Katrina Woznicki — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:02:25 +0000

The beauty of walking into the Catskills’ Roxbury Motel is that whatever was weighing you down that day—money, parenting, traffic—vanishes instantly. Roadside lodging rarely offers jaw-dropping moments, but as soon as you slide that key into one of the lime-green doors and step into your assigned room you’ll have one, and be too enchanted to wallow in your daily stresses. And it doesn’t matter which room you walk into: MaryAnn’s Coconut Cream Pie (room 27) or Miss Kitty’s Saloon (room […]

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Alkina Lodge: Embracing Nature in Style

Katrina Woznicki — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:45:34 +0000

There are advantages to receiving an itinerary late and not knowing where you’re going or spending the night. After an unforgettable, astonishingly beautiful drive along Australia’s Victorian coast, my group turned inland onto a winding road in Wattle Hill, and then we were in a driveway attached to what looked like a bunch of Legos. We got out of the van and were enthusiastically told by our hosts that dinner would be ready soon. Then we went inside the hotel […]

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Aside Macau’s Casinos, a Thriving 16th Century City

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:28:07 +0000

Ask a resident of Macau where to buy the freshest egg tart or enjoy a phoenix egg roll, and you’ll likely get an answer you can’t plug into Google Maps. The response may begin with something along the lines of: “Turn left at the McDonald’s, walk a few blocks, make a right, maybe another block or two, look for that church, St. Dominic’s, there’s a street off that,” which might leave any visitor at a loss. That’s because the Macanese […]

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Bellfire Tipi: A Fine-Tuned Twist on Glamping

Katrina Woznicki — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:37:55 +0000

We arrived in darkness, late because of Friday night traffic on I-87 North, everyone escaping Manhattan at the same time for someplace quieter. With a few stars not really lighting our way, we used our iPhones as lanterns as we were guided through a field towards the edge of some woods. Here, in Roxbury, New York, in the heart of the Catskills, our hosts maintain a tipi. We slept in it that night, but didn’t truly see where we were […]

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