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Three years ago, my partner and I packed everything we owned into a bright yellow campervan and decided to live on the road full-time.Since then, we’ve been to 49 states and nine Canadian provinces and territories, and have experienced once-in-a-lifetime moments along the way.The experience has been overwhelmingly positive so…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthijs van der Ham, 44, an architect and woodworker. For seven years, he and his 13-year-old son have lived in Minitopia,’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.Seven years ago, when our landlord told me the apartment…
Business Insider's reporter explored a 1900s resort town full of historic cabins that were abandoned by the end of the century. After restoration by the National Parks Service, 16 cabins are now open to the public.Joey Hadden/Business InsiderThere's a resort town in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that was…
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Our family’s first trip to Windermere changed everything.Sitting on the bank of a stream with my feet dipped in its cold, clear water, surrounded by trees budding for spring — even with the baby kicking away inside me at eight months pregnant, I felt a kind of bliss that’s hard…
Elizabeth Schwartz Cohen lost count of how many times she found herself glued to her phone in her Tel Aviv apartment in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, bracing for the next missile alert and the scramble to a shelter. Loading audio narration… Now, Tel Aviv is under fire once…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kenny Jary of the social media account Patriotic Kenny. It has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… Back in the day, I always said that I wanted a tattoo. I was in the United States Navy, and everyone…
Fifteen years ago, Fukushima, Japan, was home to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Today, some places in the region look just as they did in the immediate aftermath of that fateful Friday in 2011.After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami ravaged the electrical grid and flooded the…
My husband and I wanted space. We wanted to be off-grid. Loading audio narration… After years of traveling in a van, our wild hippie hearts wanted a place where we could build whatever we wanted, meditate outside in the sun, and feel inspired by natural, untouched land nearby.When we first…
I sat on the terrace of my Washington Heights apartment building, soaking in the view of the city skyline one last time. Loading audio narration… It was my last night in New York City before I moved back to India. I’d relocated to the US five years earlier, at age…
