Mattapoisett Massachusetts sits on Buzzards Bay between New Bedford and Cape Cod — a small harbor town where we spent our days quahogging the tidal flats, steaming clams with butter, and doing very little else. Here’s why that was enough.
Nantucket vs Marthas Vineyard — everyone assumes the Vineyard is the expensive island. The numbers say otherwise. Nantucket costs nearly four times as much to reach by ferry. Here’s the complete honest comparison of both islands.
I passed through Charleston, South Carolina on a road trip at twelve years old and could already tell it was something different. The architecture, the pace, the feeling of a city that knew exactly what it was. Here’s what it became — and what’s still worth finding.
Rye Beach New Hampshire sits between Hampton Beach and Portsmouth on America’s shortest ocean coastline — eighteen miles that include some of the best beach on the entire New England coast, a legendary lobster shack on Route 1A, and the specific quiet that only the right beach town delivers.
Solomons Island Maryland sits where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay — a waterman’s village built on a former WWII naval base, with the Calvert Marine Museum, steamed crabs on the water, and the kind of Chesapeake character most visitors never find.
Annapolis Maryland — crabcakes on the water, the Naval Academy, sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, and waterskiing from a friend’s cove house outside the city. The complete insider guide to the DC area’s favorite escape.
Mount Rushmore South Dakota stopped us cold on a 2020 road trip — one night in Rapid City, the Avenue of Flags, the Badlands, and two places that took our breath away. Here’s what we found.
The Boulders Resort in Carefree Arizona runs up to $1,000 a night in season. I went twice in the dead of summer at 115 degrees and found cheap rates, ancient boulder formations, two pools, a world-class spa, and exactly the reset I needed.
Rehoboth Beach vs Bethany Beach I’ve been going to Rehoboth since the late 1960s, family summers, bike rides, Grotto’s Pizza, four brothers. Bethany didn’t come until 2021. Here’s what a lifetime on the Delaware coast taught me about which one is right for you.
Five friends from kindergarten, a three-story beach house right on the sand, and the realization that Bethany Beach Delaware was always the right place — we just weren’t ready for it in our 20s.