Travel Stories

The actual trips, in order

Longer-form stories from the road. Each post pairs with its most-viewed TikTok from that trip.

2026 · Aberdeen, Washington

We skipped Seattle for Aberdeen, and it was the better trip

Everyone doing the Kurt Cobain pilgrimage heads to Seattle. We drove to Aberdeen instead — the yellow house, the bridge, the river — and found the version of the story that actually makes sense.

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2026 · Jeffersonville, Vermont

The day a dozen golden retriever puppies ran at us

Golden Dog Farm is a maple syrup operation that happens to run the best paid experience we've done all year — a truckload of puppies, a pond, and thirty minutes we'd redo immediately.

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2026 · Washington, Connecticut

We found Stars Hollow, and it's a real town in Connecticut

Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote the Gilmore Girls pilot after staying at a Connecticut inn — and most of the town she saw is still standing. We spent a day finding all of it.

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