The beginning doesn’t feel like the best place to start recounting my experience with the Drifter Hotel. Not the moment...
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Sarah is the founder and editor of Flung and the author of The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach. She also wrote Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, and is a widely published travel and culture writer. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.
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