Cody Medina
There’s a corner of Catalonia, Spain, where the hillsides are so steep and the landscape so dramatic that first-time visitors routinely reach for words they normally reserve for California. It’s not the marketing. It’s the view from the terraced vineyards of Priorat, a pocket-sized wine region about two hours southwest of Barcelona, that keeps drawing
When June arrives in Tucson, the city doesn’t just get warm. It gets serious. In the summer of 2024, Tucson logged 78 days with temperatures reaching at least 100 degrees, a full 23 days more than normal. For families with kids underfoot and no tolerance for the kind of heat that bakes the sidewalk through
There’s something that happens when you climb a wooden staircase and step into a room suspended among the branches. It’s not quite nostalgia, not quite wonder. It’s something in between. The childhood fantasy of a secret hideout in the treetops never fully fades, and the travel industry knows it. The treehouse glamping market was valued
There’s a quiet shift happening in how people think about travel. Fewer people are asking where they can go to see the most. More are asking where they can go to finally rest. Sleep, once the thing you sacrificed on a trip, has become the destination itself. This isn’t a passing hotel marketing gimmick. It
On most Friday afternoons, a familiar pattern plays out on I-80 heading east out of Salt Lake City. Cars filter off the freeway and begin climbing into the Wasatch Mountains, leaving the valley behind. Their destination is Park City, Utah – a small historic town tucked into the mountains just thirty miles from the urban
Most people who drive through Badlands National Park follow the same well-worn script: pull into the big lots, snap photos at the famous spires, and move on. It’s understandable. The park is enormous and the obvious views are legitimately stunning. Still, tucked along the quieter stretches of the Badlands Loop Road, Prairie Wind Overlook sits
There’s something almost primal about sleeping on water. The gentle rhythm beneath you, the absence of road noise, the way the world narrows down to what you can see, hear, and feel from a small floating room. It’s a different kind of quiet than you get in the mountains or the forest. It’s more immediate,
Every seasoned traveler knows that slow, anxious feeling at the baggage carousel – watching identical black bags tumble past, wondering if one of them is yours. It turns out, that specific shade of dread is entirely avoidable. The color of your suitcase matters far more than most people realize, and the people who handle luggage
There’s a particular kind of wonder that comes from swimming in water that the earth made for itself. No tiles, no chlorine, no lane dividers. Just stone shaped by millennia of waves, volcanic heat, and quiet erosion. These five places are the real thing, each one carved by geological forces far older than any resort
Most people think of a workation as something that requires weeks of planning, a lengthy sabbatical, or at least a few days of paid leave. In reality, a long weekend is more than enough time to pull it off properly, especially as the infrastructure for working remotely while traveling has matured considerably in recent years.
Millions of travelers check a bag and simply hope for the best. It’s a reasonable thing to do. Most bags arrive fine. Still, knowing what actually happens to your suitcase between the check-in counter and the baggage carousel changes how you pack, tag, and track your luggage entirely. The people who sort, scan, and load
The Charleston area welcomed nearly 7.8 million visitors in 2024, generating a record $14 billion economic impact in the local hospitality sector, according to the College of Charleston’s Office of Tourism Analysis. For a city of Charleston’s scale, those numbers are extraordinary. They’re also, for many locals, a signal to pack a day bag and