Meet Your New Travel BFFs: Damon and Jo

At first, Damon Dominique and Jo Franco seem like typical Millennials: they’re bubbly, goofy, obsessed with travel, and love a good Azealia Banks song. But once you start learning more about them, you’ll...
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QUIZ: Which Music Festival Should You Attend?

Are you ready for festival season? That's right, it's almost upon us. If you still haven't gotten one of those hard-to-get tickets, no worries, we have a foolproof, totally scientific quiz to help you decide...
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Why I’ll Never Travel in a Group Again

It was 2013 and I was on a train surrounded by a handful of people who, just hours before, had been complete strangers. We were passing around those tiny bottles of vodka that you get on airplanes and swapping...
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8 Best Places to See Cherry Blossoms in the USA

We know that jetting off to Tokyo is probably somewhere on your bucket list -- but it's called a bucket list for a reason. AKA it's full of stuff that takes a bit of commitment to actually do. So for those of...
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The Zen of Going With the Flow When I Travel

How one Type-A traveler dialed her stress way back when she allowed fate to take charge If someone were to have told me to "go with the flow" four years ago, I probably would have looked at them, red-eyed and...