Chicago is an expensive city to visit if you let it be. The big museums run $25 to $35 a head, the observation decks are more, and a weekend disappears fast. It’s also a city where the single best thing you can do, which is walk around looking at the buildings, costs nothing at all.
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America is built for this. Long distances, cheap fuel by most of the world’s standards, and roads that were often laid out specifically so people would drive them for fun. These seven are the ones worth rearranging a year for. For each: the distance, how many days it actually takes rather than how fast you
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New Orleans is one of those cities that rewards knowing a few things in advance. Not because it’s difficult, but because almost everything people assume about it from television is either outdated or was only ever true of about four blocks. Here’s what actually matters, from someone who’d rather you spent your first afternoon eating
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Travelling alone for a weekend is a different problem to travelling alone for a month. You’ve got two and a half days, you don’t want to spend one of them working out logistics, and you probably don’t want to eat every meal staring at your phone. So these seven are picked on practical grounds. Walkable
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Boston surprises people with how small it is. You can walk from one side of the historic centre to the other in about thirty minutes, and most first-timers end up doing exactly that by accident while looking for lunch. That compactness is the whole trick to a good first trip. Don’t plan around neighbourhoods that
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Salem in October is not a quiet historic town you wander around with a coffee. It’s closer to a month-long festival that happens to be held inside a 400-year-old port. Roughly a million people come through in those four weeks, in a town of about 44,000. Which means it’s brilliant, and it means you have
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Asheville in October is the kind of place that makes you check property prices on your phone at a traffic light. The mountains go orange, the air finally cools off, and the whole town smells faintly of woodsmoke and hops. It is also, to be honest, busy. Leaf season is Asheville’s high season and the
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Fall foliage is one of those things that looks easy to plan and absolutely is not. The colour moves, it moves fast, and it does not care about the weekend you booked off in August. One year the Adirondacks peak in the last week of September. The next year the same trees are still half
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Most people treat Denver as an airport with a city attached. Seven things worth doing, and the altitude advice that saves the rest of your trip.
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Chicago in three days: the boat tour that makes the rest make sense, the deck worth paying for, and why locals never eat deep dish.
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