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Second Rate Cities

Zach Custer

A travel blog hitting all the cities you won't visit, by way of running, dive bars, history, and community. Let's get weird and redefine what it means to vacation while finding the next great American city.

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El Paso, Texas Is the (Landlocked) Island Of My Dreams

Image by Jake Inferrera

Having drinks at a hotel rooftop bar was about the most uncharacteristic activity I did all weekend. It was equally the least legitimate El Paso experience I conjured. Yet I did it twice – at two distinguished downt...

3 months ago
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Variety Is The Spice Of Life, And I Want Spice At All My Dive Bars

A perfect pairing: Guinness and Pad Kra Pao at The White Hart in London.

It should have been obvious to me that given my love for exploring bar culture when I travel, the UK would be a divine experience. But I always skipped it because it...

7 months ago
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Cleveland, Ohio: The Clearest Distillation of America

Illustration by Jake Inferrera.

My first evening in Cleveland I wandered The Flats near downtown, watching the Goodyear Blimp fly over Progressive Field as the sunset danced off the skyline and peopled filled downtown for a July 4th firewo...

10 months ago
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The Club Ms. Mae's: A Series of Vignettes

Ms. Mae’s illustration by Jake Inferrera.

My love for the bar scene came as an 18 year old, before I was legally allowed to be in them. See, I went to undergrad in New Orleans where drinking is woven into the fabric of life. Fake IDs of th...

a year ago
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A Weekend In Sacramento, CA

Illustration by Jake Inferrera

California is a state so important and influential that if it were a country its $4.1 trillion GDP would rank fourth internationally (this jump to 4th just happened!). One might expect that the capital of thi...

a year ago
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