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The 8 Best Coffee Shops in Savannah (& The Coolest, Quaintest Cafes)

September 2, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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The best coffee shops in Savannah are about as charming as they come. Like Savannah’s incredible restaurant scene, the coffee culture here in one of the South’s most hospitable cities is wonderful, both taste-wise and aesthetically.    From charming, artsy cafes to upscale artisanal espresso houses, there’s a come-hither ease to the city’s best cafes […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, coffee, Georgia, savannah

The 12 Best Restaurants in Santa Fe for Unforgettable Meals

September 1, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 1 Comment

This guide to the best restaurants in Santa Fe features a mix of high-end and casual options– from down-home Pueblo-influenced New Mexico diners to upscale resort hot spots. Basically, it features a little bit of everything. (And that’s exciting, as Santa Fe is consistently named one of America’s top 10 food cities!)  As with all […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, restaurants, Travel Guide

The 5 Best Ice Cream Shops in Asheville, North Carolina

August 17, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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The best ice cream in Asheville is relatively easy to find if you know where to look. With a number of inventive, dairy and non-dairy allergy-friendly ice cream shops around this eclectic little mountain town, the flavors and creativity never fail to impress. Ultimately, we cobbled together this guide to Asheville’s best ice cream shops […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, asheville, dessert

15 Cool Things To Do in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 15, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 3 Comments

Pittsburgh is often overshadowed by its slightly more cosmopolitan sister, Philadelphia– but the city that made Andy Warhol and Andrew Carnegie is a lovely destination in its own right. Pittsburgh has excellent restaurants, lovely parks, great neighborhoods, and a prodigious cultural scene, from the iconic Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, Travel Guide

15 Cool Bucket List Things to Do in Northern Virginia

August 12, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Northern Virginia is something of an enigma to people from outside the state. Those who don’t understand what “NoVa” means have a hard time understanding why super cultured, super liberal, beautifully landscaped Northern Virginia– aka “NoVa”– is so different from the rest of Virginia, which is much more rustic, agrarian, and pastoral by comparison.  This […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, northern virginia, Travel Guide, virginia

The 8 Best Places to Get Birthday Cake in Chicago

August 8, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

Chicago is increasingly regarded as one of the best culinary cities in America when it comes to bakeries– and birthday cake in particular. It used to be that New York and LA were the only major cities putting cake artists on the map, but the advent of the TV series Cake Wars, social media, and […]

Filed Under: Cool Ideas Tagged With: bakeries, birthday cake, Chicago

10 Cool New York City Workouts (According To Insiders & Locals)

August 5, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 2 Comments

When I first moved to New York after college, one of the things I loved most about the city was the incredible array of boutique fitness offerings. Categories of gyms and fitness programs I had never even heard of before– like aquacycling and megaformer pilates– caught my interest. Previously, I was a runner, a yogi, […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: american cities, exercise, fitness, nyc, self care

The 11 Safest, Most Effective Herbal Remedies For Insomnia

July 7, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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“People say, ‘I’m going to sleep now,’ as if it were nothing,” George Carlin once said. “But it’s really a bizarre activity. ‘For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I’m going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.’” […]

Filed Under: Anxiety Hacks Tagged With: burnout, calming, exhaustion, fatigue, herbal remedies, insomnia, sleep, sleep hacks, winter blues

The 6 Best Reef-Safe Zinc Sunscreens of 2025 (Most Effective + Elegant Formulas)

July 1, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin Leave a Comment

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Reef-safe zinc sunscreen– which always contains physical UV blockers rather than chemical SPF– is better for coral reefs because these formulas don’t contain avobenzone, oxybenzone, octinoxate, octocrylene, octisalate, or homosalate– six active chemicals that are known to be toxic to precious marine ecosystems. (And they’re not great for the human endocrine system, either!)   It’s important […]

Filed Under: Cool Ideas Tagged With: advocacy, airplane travel, beauty, environment, skincare

An Insider’s Guide to Santorini, Greece

June 27, 2025 by Molly Beauchemin 2 Comments

Santorini is a small, crescent-shaped island in the Aegean Sea that’s famous for its charming sun-bleached architecture and dazzling ocean views. Located just off the coast of Greece, it’s one of the dozens of small volcanic islands that dot the archipelago between Greece and Turkey. Today, it’s known for its photogenic pink bougainvillea, reliably sunny […]

Filed Under: Travel Well Tagged With: europe, Europe travel, european cities, Relaxing getaway, Travel Guide

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