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Savannah is my kind of city. Walkable. Unhurried. More front porches than agendas. You don’t visit Savannah to check boxes. You visit to slow down and remember what a GREAT day can feel like.
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Whoever decided to build Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain, on the edge of a volcanic cliff had a lot more confidence than I do.
Some of the houses sit right along a drop of nearly 160 feet.
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If you've ever wanted to wake up surrounded by mountains and waterfalls, look up Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.
The village sits in a valley with steep cliffs on both sides and 72 waterfalls scattered throughout the area.
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Ushguli, Georgia, sits more than 6,800 feet up in the Caucasus Mountains, where people still live among medieval stone towers built hundreds of years ago.
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In 2014, a volcano erupted on Fogo Island in Cape Verde and buried much of the village of Chã das Caldeiras under lava.
People lost their homes, farms, and businesses.
But many returned and rebuilt right there in the crater.
They still grow grapes and make wine on the slopes of an active volcano.
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Copper was discovered near Røros, Norway, in 1644.
For the next 300 years, mining shaped nearly everything about this little town. The mines finally closed in 1977.
Much of the old town is still there, including its wooden houses, narrow streets, and historic mining sites.
I'd put Røros high on my list for a trip through Norway.
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Europe's widest waterfall is in a small town in Latvia.
Venta Rapid stretches about 800 feet across, but drops only six feet.
Visit Kuldīga in the spring and you might catch fish jumping up the falls on their way upstream.
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In Obidos, Portugal, you can walk along medieval walls overlooking whitewashed houses and wander through narrow cobblestone streets that haven't changed much in centuries.
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St. Michaels, Maryland, is worth a weekend if you've never explored the Eastern Shore.
It's a small waterfront town with historic houses, seafood restaurants, and sailboats filling the harbor.
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a good place to learn about the region's maritime history.
I'd spend the afternoon walking through town and finish with dinner overlooking the water.
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Virginia City, Montana, looks much like it did during the gold rush of the 1860s. The wooden storefronts, old saloons, and dirt roads make it one of the few places in America where you can get a real sense of life in the Old West.
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You can't just buy a plane ticket and visit these 32 places.
Area 51. North Sentinel Island. The unopened tomb of China's first emperor. A seed vault buried deep inside a Norwegian mountain.
Each has its own reason for restricting visitors, and some of the stories are fascinating.
I spent some time researching all 32 for my latest documentary.
Which one would you want to learn more about?
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Most people visiting Slovenia head straight for Lake Bled.
About 25 miles away, Lake Bohinj sits inside Triglav National Park, surrounded by mountains and small villages.
It's where I'd go if I wanted to spend a few days hiking, swimming, and enjoying the Slovenian Alps.
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Most people visiting Arizona head for the Grand Canyon or Sedona.
Meanwhile, down in the southeastern corner of the state, Chiricahua National Monument has entire hillsides covered in towering rock columns.
They're the remains of volcanic activity from roughly 27 million years ago.
How is this place not talked about more?
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Every American should visit at least a few of our national parks.
We have some of the most beautiful places in the world right here in the United States.
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I miss the days when you could get in the car on a Saturday morning and drive somewhere just because.
Find a small town you've never been to, grab lunch at a local diner, and spend the afternoon walking around.
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You get a free three-day weekend anywhere in America.
But you must choose one:
-A historic harbor town in Washington.
-An old river town in West Virginia.
-A lakeside town in Wisconsin.
-A mountain village in Arizona.
Which are you taking?
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Travel has a way of changing how you see your own country.
You notice what other places do better, where they struggle, and things you might have taken for granted back home.
That's why I believe it's important to understand how people actually live in other countries, not just what they're like to visit.
A Tale of Two Healthcare Systems
American healthcare is so expensive that it's driven folks to rob banks to pay for coverage (Brian Randolph).
It's even driven cats to murder (Luigi Mangione).
79 million Americans have medical bill debt, with 20 million owing more than $ 1,000.
But on the flip side, there is the Canadian healthcare system, with universal coverage funded by the government.
But that comes with its own trade-offs that you can't appreciate until it's held up to ours.
When a government pays for everything, the cost doesn't go away. Instead, the ability to provide an adequate supply to meet the demand does.
The American system is a crisis of affordability; the Canadian system is a crisis of rationing
Watching Broken Country, the documentary by Canadian filmmaker Mira Metter and @mjwerry about some of the social issues Canada is facing, has put this into perspective.
For my American audience, here are some things to consider that we don't have to deal with. My Canadian audience, chime in if the following reflects your experience.
-Death by wait time: From 2023-2024, over 15,000 Canadians died while on a waitlist for scheduled surgeries or diagnostic scans like MRIs.
-Emergency room gridlock: The median wait time for a patient admitted to a Canadian ER is 16 hours. 1 in 10 will wait over 48 hours just to get a bed on a ward.
-Not enough beds: Canada has just 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people. The global OECD average is 4.2.
-Hospitals packed past capacity: 85% occupancy is the international safety benchmark; Canadian hospitals routinely run at 100% to 106% capacity.
Healthcare is expensive here in the States, but you can get seen fairly quickly.
If you need an MRI for a torn ligament or an urgent oncology consult, you can generally get it within days or weeks.
In Canada, getting a routine specialist appointment or a non-emergency ultrasound routinely takes six months to a year.
In fact, Canadians with the cash frequently cross the border to the U.S., paying entirely out of pocket just to bypass their own system’s lethargy.
They can’t just pay cash to jump the line back home; while the federal Canada Health Act doesn't explicitly ban private care, it penalizes provinces that allow it.
To protect their federal funding, individual provinces have passed strict laws that effectively outlaw private billing for medically necessary procedures, leaving patients with no domestic alternatives.
The relationship between fast and free healthcare is not so mutually exclusive in other countries. It just happens that two of the world's greatest extremes share a border.
Watching this documentary has been fascinating. I highly recommend you check out Broken Country—especially if you're a Canadian.
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There was a time when tallgrass prairie covered 170 million acres of North America.
Today, less than 4% remains intact.
In the Flint Hills of Kansas, you can still walk through a surviving stretch of that landscape, with bison, wide-open views, and grass that grows tall by autumn.
I'd love to see it in person.
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There's a town in southern Albania where entire neighborhoods are filled with centuries-old stone houses.
Gjirokastër has steep cobblestone streets, an enormous castle, and rooftops covered in stone.
It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the architecture alone makes it worth visiting.
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Germany has a town on the Moselle River where vineyards cover the hills and a castle overlooks the old streets.
It's called Cochem.
You could spend the morning wandering through town, the afternoon exploring the castle, and the evening enjoying a meal beside the river.
That sounds like a GREAT day to me.
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