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Author to Author: Teddy Minford and Jen Rose Smith

Author to Author: Teddy Minford and Jen Rose Smith

Jen Rose Smith and Teddy Minford have both published books to some of summer’s most classic destinations. Jen Rose Smith is the author of Moon’s Vermont guidebook (released May 21, 2019) and Teddy Minford is the author of Beachy Weekend Getaways from New York: Short Breaks in the Hamptons, Long Island, and the Jersey Shore (released June 11, 2019). The two writers sat down to talk about travel, summer, and what it’s like to write a guidebook. Jen Rose Smith:…

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Traveling Alone Landed Me at an Indian Wedding

Traveling Alone Landed Me at an Indian Wedding

by: Dena Moes If I dug a hole straight through the middle of the Earth from my home in Chico, California, I would eventually surface in India. I took the long way around, traveling for twenty-three hours by air, to see my sister and her brand new baby. My sister Amy was a foreign correspondent posted in New Delhi for years, and I had never made the trip, too busy and cash-poor raising my own young children in California. But…

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Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

by: Ele Pawelski In the fiery orange of dawn, I cross the old San Marcos Bridge out of León, Spain. It’s early, but I’m far from alone. Walking poles tap-tap on ancient stone as I march ahead with the handful of other pilgrims. My first Camino day will be a 20-kilometer segment, with the goal of reaching Santiago de Compostela’s grand Cathedral in two weeks. I’m confident I can do it because this is Camino 2.0 for me. Walking the…

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Refresh Rewind: World Travelers

Refresh Rewind: World Travelers

By The Refresh Editors  There is nothing like a good getaway. Whether you’re returning to a place that has significance for you or taking a voyage to a never-before-experienced-by-you destination, taking a trip can put you in a different state of mind and supply you with memories that last longer than that souvenir that will eventually get misplaced. We are constantly amazed by our writers and photographers at The Refresh, who chronicle their voyages around the globe and tell us…

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Marvel & DC: Aussie Style at the Supanova Convention

Marvel & DC: Aussie Style at the Supanova Convention

by Marissa Price Back in April, I was lucky enough to attend a Supanova convention on the Gold Coast to try selling books. As a teacher, tutor, business owner, mother, wife and writer, there are so many things that demand my attention on a daily basis that I’m often not sure where to start. And even if I didn’t have all of those amazing things in my life, marketing would definitely take the cake as the hardest part of independent…

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