It is World Cup summer, and both England and Portugal have spent the past few weeks doing what they do best: living and dying by the fortunes of eleven men on a screen. With the 2026 tournament unfolding across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, two of Europe’s most football-obsessed nations have been in the global […]
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It is a strange and wonderful summer to be writing this. Canada and Mexico are co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside the United States, and for a month the world’s cameras have bounced between Vancouver’s harbour, Toronto’s skyline and the roar of a packed Estadio Azteca — two genuinely football-mad nations enjoying a rare
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If you have spent this summer anywhere near a television, you already know the 2026 World Cup across the USA, Canada, and Mexico turned the whole planet into one loud, arguing living room, and few sets of fans argue more beautifully than Argentines and Spaniards. Both countries treat football as something closer to religion than
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Halloween 2026 lands on a Saturday, which changes everything. October 31 on a weekend means the big Halloween towns will hit their highest crowds in years, hotel prices will surge for the full Oct 29–Nov 1 window, and the places that are merely “spooky adjacent” will feel like festivals. We’ve been to most of the
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Labor Day 2026 lands on Monday, September 7, which makes September 5–7 the last three-day shot at summer. Right now, about seven weeks out, is exactly when the good places are still bookable without last-resort pricing. The pattern worth exploiting: early September brings the warmest water of the year on almost every American coast and
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Thanksgiving 2026 falls on Thursday, November 26, and the four-day weekend around it is the most expensive stretch of travel in the American calendar. Here is what years of skipping the home version have taught us: the flights are what hurt. Pick the right destination and the trip itself can cost less than hosting fourteen
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We have hauled kids to beaches on three continents, and here is the honest lesson: the best family beach vacation is rarely the prettiest beach. It is the one with calm water, a bathroom within sprinting distance, food nobody fights about, and a price that does not ruin the photos. A drop-dead gorgeous beach with
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Planning a guys trip is where group chats go to die. Someone wants golf, someone wants a casino, half the group has a budget and the other half has a credit card, and nothing gets booked until flights double. This list is the shortcut: sixteen destinations we would actually plan around, split between the US
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Here’s the thing nobody tells you about living in (or repeatedly visiting) Las Vegas: it might be the single best national-park base camp in America. Zion is under three hours away, Death Valley two, the Grand Canyon a long-but-doable four-plus, and Valley of Fire — which would be a headline park in most states —
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Nashville is surrounded by more variety than people give it credit for: the longest cave system on Earth is 90 minutes north, whiskey country is an hour south, and within three or so hours you can be standing in the Smokies, on Beale Street, or on a Kentucky bourbon tour. The drives themselves are easy
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