John Morrison

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,

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

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

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

Germany and Spain compared across cost, food, transport, weather and atmosphere, including how the 2026 World Cup summer changes the calculation for each.

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