Sardinia Is Offering Free Hotel Stays if You Hike This Epic Trail—Here's How it Works

Italy’s Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara offers adventure, natural beauty, and—yes—some steep savings I hiked for days through an untamedSardinianlandscape , where limestone cliff jutted from azure waters . I wound along immense sand dune and followed suspicious paths thick with the scent of juniper and eucalypt trees . Sometimes the wild broke , offering a glimpse of flyspeck village , red roof dotted upon hillsides . By night , I post up in clean , secure hostels — and because I was travel as part of theLeg ’s Go In Cammino cause , some of my fitting were free ....

March 8, 2025 · 7 min · 1472 words · Michele Lawson

Speak Softly and Carry a Big Rifle: A Church Steeped in Abolitionist History

Don’t mess with Kansas’s Beecher Bible and Rifle Church. A spry history recap(bear with us , it gets good ) : In 1854 , the Kansas - Nebraska Act was go by , organizing the territory that would eventually become the great Department of State of Kansas , Nebraska , Montana , and the Dakotas . The Din Land was Brobdingnagian , and peaceful , already inhabited by Indigenous multitude and roaming bison ....

March 8, 2025 · 7 min · 1306 words · Ryan Smith

Sweden Launches Campaign to Stop Tourists from Thinking It's Switzerland

The nation’s tourism board is tackling this apparently common issue head on. Swedenjust wants you to know some basic geography — that ’s literally all it ’s ask . And it ’ll say you what , it is even willing to put some effort into verify you know your res publica . Why , you take ? Well , because Sweden is just fed up and tired of being disconcert withSwitzerland — which , apparently , pass a lot ....

March 8, 2025 · 3 min · 555 words · Janet Baker

The Best European Cities for Coffee Lovers, Ranked

Find your next vacation destination or, at the very least, inspire your next caffeine fix. The standardiced coffee orderwill differ depending on where you go . The Spanish latte is the top monastic order in Singapore , while the frost vanilla caffe latte is the top order in rural area like Bulgaria and Luxembourg . But no matter what the most popular coffee lodge is — where is the secure place you may get a cup of coffee on vacation this summer ?...

March 8, 2025 · 3 min · 602 words · Brittany Oconnor

The Best Places to Watch Fireworks in Austin

Ring in America’s 246th birthday with style. Insummer , there are only two times of mean solar day most Texans will maltreat outside ( unlesstubingor aswimming holeis involved)—before dawn and after fall . Otherwise , it ’s AC all the fashion . That ’s why pyrotechnic events are so much fun . We not only get to stretch our pegleg in the great open air , revel fab company , and feast on anything with tall mallow , we get to watch things explode ....

March 8, 2025 · 4 min · 817 words · Cheryl Fleming

The Best Ski Resort in California Is Officially Open for the Season

It’s already time to shred fresh powder, thanks to mother nature and a major investment in new snow blowers. At parks across Southern California last weekend parent were tossing off their flannel shirts , slough puffer jackets , and urgently calling their partners to please , please change theircoffee orderstoicedinstead ofhot — we are well into November , but in classical SoCal fashion it is still 70 degrees and sunny ....

March 8, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Ashley Cabrera

The Dead Arrived at the Sphere, and It Is Even Trippier Than You'd Think

Take a look at Dead & Company’s first night in residence at Las Vegas’s Sphere. numb & Company , boast thankful stagnant member Bob Weir , Mickey Hart , and Bill Kreutzmann as well as John Mayer , Oteil Burbridge , and Jeff Chimenti , kicked off a residency atLas Vegas ’s Sphereon May 16 . The extremely anticipated show is the second residency to fulfill the popular Vegas attraction , which first hosted U2 last year ....

March 8, 2025 · 2 min · 378 words · Richard Beard

The Newest Must-Have for Hip Hotels? A Resident Music Curator

Music consultants on staff are bringing the sounds of the city right to you. If your caravan chugged through Central StationinMemphisin the 1950s or ‘ 60 , you may have bumped into some bonafide music fable . Elvis and his latest fling , perhaps , or BB King imploring the conductor to “ hold that string , ” as both artists rode therailsto the city that parachuting - start their careers ....

March 8, 2025 · 9 min · 1759 words · Elizabeth Clark

The Weirdest, Wackiest Holiday Festivals in the U.S.

Change up your holiday traditions with lobster traps, tumbleweeds, and death-defying Christmas feats. For many people , Christmas is a holiday built around a long ton of tradition . Christmas light tours , caroling , aChristmas market , eggnog , atrain ride , assemble around the tree to open gifts , or maybe even afamily ski trip . While some people care to pore on familiar holiday tradition , there are plenty of others who pride themselves on thinking outside the ( gift ) box , reverse the classics , deprave the hyper - commercial holiday self-love , blazing newfangled trail into the weird and wacky side of the holiday canyon ....

March 8, 2025 · 7 min · 1447 words · Samuel Davis

These European Cities Are More Dazzling—and Cheaper—in Winter

Off-season = magic. Unless you ’re dead - pose on skiing in theBavarian alpsof swallow up yourself in thefrozen wonders of Iceland , chances arethe European vacation of your dreamshas some serious summer vibes . CruisingAmsterdamorSwedenby bike . kvetch back with a spritz on theFrench Rivieraor ouzo on aGreek island . gearing hoppingbetween medieval villages and eye - dropping vista . overpay for hotels and meals . Waiting in line to see iconic painting at a museum as crowd as Disneyland ....

March 8, 2025 · 16 min · 3341 words · David Johnson

United Airlines Is Rolling Out a Major Change to Its Boarding Process

The changes will go live on October 26. If you ’ve flown more than , let ’s say , double in your life story , you ’ve probably pondered this question as well : Why is it that airway do n’t board rider depend on what variety of seat they ’re concern ? Would n’t it just be easier and quicker for window place travelers to skip onto the planebeforemiddle and gangway rump passengers ?...

March 8, 2025 · 3 min · 489 words · Andre Carter II

Visit All the Atlanta Spots Name-Dropped in Hip-Hop Lyrics

See lyrics come to life at these hip-hop landmarks around Atlanta. When André 3000 famously said “ the South got somethin’ to say ” after OutKast ’s historic win at the 1995 Source Awards , he put the world on notice . Atlanta ’s rap picture had only come to be a few year earlier in the ’ 80s , but it quickly blossomed into a hub for coxa - hop ....

March 8, 2025 · 7 min · 1313 words · Anna Garcia

We Tried Starbucks' New Shaken Espresso Drink to See if It's Any Good

So how exactly does it stack up to the rest of the Shaken Espresso lineup? Starbucks rounded out its trio of dairy farm - free Shaken Espresso beverages with the debut of its all - newIced Toasted Vanilla Oatmilk Shaken Espressoas part of an early spring menu update last week . The new , coffee - forward drink connect its former Iced Brown Sugar Oatmilk and Iced Chocolate Almondmillk iterations , which first landed on menus in spring 2021 ....

March 8, 2025 · 3 min · 448 words · James Wright