Category: Travel

South America Travel Wine

Getting to Know the Wines of Chile

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Photography by Samantha Demangate  Chile’s wine industry revolves around some big-names. Cheap and delicious, these wines are perfect for those looking for value and quality. Yet to discover a region’s wine, it’s necessary to reach further. Our deep dive into Chilean wine revolved around discovering the people in the industry who are doing something unique and pushing the country’s winemaking to new limits.  Wine shops are always great starting points for discovering wine. Our journey…

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Travel

Language Learning While on the Road

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One of the many joys and struggles of traveling lies in learning languages while on the road. Whether you’re just picking up a few phrases to help you get by or aiming towards fluency, keeping up with your studies while traveling can be a daunting task. This week, I’m sharing my own experiences with taking on a new language while abroad and looking deeper into what it takes to become a polyglot.  Learning languages has…

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North America Travel

American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland: California’s Palm Desert to Sedona, Az.

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Photos by Samantha Demangate Waking up well rested and ready to take on another day of driving, my girlfriend and I packed up and hit the road. Miles of barren desert passed by us as the I-10 runs deeper into the Sonoran Desert. The harsh landscape stretched infinitely ahead. There are few places more humbling and disparaging than the deserts of North America. It’s hard to imagine that hundreds of thousands of people hike for…

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North America Travel

American Highways, Road Trip Through America’s Heartland

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Day 1: Highway 101 to the 10 Road Tripping through America with a raging pandemic was no easy feat. Businesses are closed, national parks shut down, monuments abandoned. Yet, regardless of the obvious set-backs, many adventures and incredible experiences awaited us, as my girlfriend and I set off on a ten-day highway journey from California to Michigan. Because of Covid we were relegated to visiting America’s small towns and less visited areas, avoiding the cities…

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