I never got botanic gardens. They’re just parks, right? Except with signs that indicate the species of every single plant...
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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.
Though he’s one of very few authors in history to have his name turned into an adjective, Franz Kafka was...
Not long after arriving to Petra, the ancient city in southern Jordan known alternately and aptly as the Lost City...
The Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York are blanketed with a forest that has been left largely untouched over the...
There’s no point trying to mask the fact that I come at art as a neophyte. A proud neophyte, actually....
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A few months ago, I went to a dinner at a cute little restaurant in SoHo that has since closed,...
Update, May 18, 2017: After a meeting yesterday between US and EU officials, the ban on electronics on flights from...
You’d have to try pretty hard to have a bad experience at Petra, the stunning ancient city carved into the...
After years of wrongly dismissing Los Angeles as a temple of narcissism with a tragic lack of public transportation, I’ve...
In the past three years, five of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos have closed, a stunning descent for what was once...
I discovered the Stickett Inn, an urbane little gem tucked into an unassuming roadside plot, thanks to its location a...
In this current era of travel, when the hippest hotels in every city around the world look identical to their...
There are some truisms in my packing routine. A small suitcase, always. Packed to the gills, probably. Keeping it light...
On a fine recent spring evening, we were driven to roll the dice and walk the 15 minutes from our apartment...
This post was updated in April 2024. Last summer, my boyfriend and I plunged headfirst into the world of bell...
During each of the past two winters, I headed up to White Pine Camp in the Adirondacks, near Saranac Lake,...
Greyhound has been working hard over the past few years to convince potential riders that its bus service deserves a...
I’m lying belly-down on the bed in my hotel room, a place on the beach with a beautiful view but...