Aspen or Vail is the closest thing American skiing has to a national argument. The two towns sit about a hundred road miles apart in the Colorado Rockies, both charge eye-watering prices, and both deliver skiing good enough to ruin ordinary mountains for you. I’ve done multiple trips to each, in winter and in summer, […]
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If you are reading this in July 2026, you already know: the World Cup has turned North America into one giant street party, and two of its three co-hosts, the USA and Mexico, have spent the summer draped in flags from Mexico City to New Jersey. Both are football-mad in their own way, one through
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On a map, Orlando and Miami look like the same trip: both in Florida, about three and a half hours apart, both sold with palm trees and sunshine. In reality, they are two completely different vacations that happen to share a state. Orlando is the theme-park capital of the world, a sprawling inland city built
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If you have had the World Cup on in the background all summer, you already know these two countries take football personally. Morocco delivered one of the great underdog runs in tournament history in 2022, Portugal has spent two decades producing players the rest of the world envies, and with the 2026 World Cup lighting
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It is World Cup summer, and Mexico is one of the three hosts. The tournament kicked off at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca in June, and the country has spent the past five weeks in full football fever. Spain, meanwhile, treats the game as something closer to religion than sport, so both of these nations have
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I have done both of these trips more than once, and I can tell you the argument that plays out in every group chat: Lake Tahoe vs Aspen is not really a ski comparison, it is a lifestyle comparison. Tahoe is a massive alpine lake at 6,200 feet ringed by more than a dozen ski
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It is July 2026, and if your group chat looks anything like mine, it has been wall-to-wall World Cup all summer as the tournament sweeps across the USA, Canada and Mexico. Germany and Spain are two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth, and watching their fans pack out plazas and beer gardens for every
It is July 2026, and if you have watched even five minutes of this World Cup summer, you have seen what football means to Germany and the Netherlands — two nations that treat the game as a second religion and repaint entire cities white or orange every tournament. But relax: this is not a football
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By the time you read this, the 2026 World Cup across the United States, Canada and Mexico will be wrapping up a summer of wall-to-wall football, and few countries have been more locked into it than England and Spain, two places where the sport sits somewhere between hobby and religion. But take a breath: this
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It is a World Cup summer, and you can feel it in both of these countries: England and Italy are two of the most football-obsessed nations on earth, and with the 2026 tournament unfolding across the USA, Canada and Mexico, every pub in Manchester and every piazza in Naples has a screen glowing late into
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