How I've Changed My Travel Planning—and How You Can, Too

A giveaway for three (3!) winners, a guide to small towns, and the crossover between books and hotels.

This year has been heavy for me, the hardest of my life. It was marked mainly by loss: loss of a pet, (temporary) loss of a limb, loss of a work identity. But throughout the year, I used travel as my respite—this community and newsletter as an outlet—to remind myself of the trips that shape us, and what travel can offer as we work through grief and tran…