Destinations

Sedona and Scottsdale sit barely two hours apart, share the same state and the same relentless sunshine, and still manage to be nearly opposite vacations. Sedona is a small red rock town built for people who want to be outside from sunrise until the stars come out: hiking, jeep trails, canyon swimming holes, and a […]

Nashville and Memphis sit about 210 miles apart on the same interstate, in the same state, and somehow feel like two different countries. Nashville is the boomtown: cranes on the skyline, bachelorette parties rolling down Broadway, and more live music per block than anywhere else in America. Memphis is the older soul: slower, grittier, and

Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge sit barely six miles apart on the same Tennessee parkway, and yet the argument over which one to base yourself in has derailed more family group chats than any other trip-planning question in the South. One is a compact mountain village pressed right up against the entrance to Great Smoky Mountains

Austin and Nashville get compared constantly, and on paper the matchup writes itself: two booming, music-obsessed cities, both drowning in bachelorette parties, both full of transplants who swear it was better five years ago. Having spent proper time in both, I think the branding hides how different they actually feel on the ground. Nashville is

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

Charleston and Savannah sit barely two hours apart on the same stretch of Lowcountry coast, and almost everyone planning a Southern trip ends up agonizing between them. On paper they look interchangeable: cobblestones, antebellum mansions, Spanish moss, shrimp and grits, ghost tours on every corner. In practice they feel surprisingly different, and picking the wrong