Travel for Real
William FleesonPlaces. Books. Strong feelings.
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2027’s First Travel List
Christmas never arrives early, but its presents sometimes do.
This year, for reasons unexplained, the travel publishing juggernaut Lonely Planet released its list of places to go in 2027 a month before the lists for 2026 or 2025.
Thanks...
Scenes From an Icelandic Airport
Airports are a curious thing. Oases of transit and consumerism, they claim to offer the taste of a place… to the tastes of all others passing through.
Especially in Europe, and the places that strive to be European, airports spread out a...
Underground, or Out of Town
The summer has been a busy one for Ukraine, in the worst ways. Amid intensified Russian attacks, civilian casualty rates hit four-year highs in May, and June, and July. Last month brought injury, and sometimes death, to more than 3,000 Ukra...
A Gulf Coast Train Turns One
The past 20 years have brought some historic changes to the U.S. Gulf. A devastating hurricane. Its economic devastation. Years of rebuilding. A 2010 Super Bowl win (remember ‘Who Dat’?). America’s highest urban murder rates. A name change...
Airbnb Beats Reality
The rental giant Airbnb released a strong quarterly earnings report this week, which triggered fist-pumping among investors and more tisk-tisking among critics.
The tech company’s stock price jumped by 17 percent—a four-year high, accordi...
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William Fleeson is a writer. A native of Washington, DC, his work has appeared in BBC Travel, Narrative, National Geographic, Newsweek, and elsewhere. He earned a nomination, most recently, for The Best American Essays anthology. www.willfleeson.com
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