For the past seven years, I've taken quite a few 20-hour train rides back and forth from New York and South Carolina.
24.10.2024 - 13:29 / insider.com
I started traveling solo nearly a decade ago when I turned 30. In the beginning, I didn't have any grand plans to visit all 50 states or every national park — I just knew I wanted to experience new places.
However, as I traveled more, my goals changed, and nearly two years ago, I visited my 50th state. However, that's not to say I didn't make some — or a lot of — mistakes along the way.
Although I don't like to have regrets, there are some things I'd recommend other travelers consider before embarking on a similar quest.
Here are six mistakes I made on my journey to see all 50 states.
For the past seven years, I've taken quite a few 20-hour train rides back and forth from New York and South Carolina.
My best friend moved to California nine years ago, and I've never visited her. A number of factors have kept me from making the trip from Boston, but my fear of flying has always been No. 1.
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“As far back as I can remember, I knew I was different,” says Alexander Smalls. Growing up in a Gullah Geechee household in Spartanburg, North Carolina, the chef says he recognized the implication of those differences—in appearance, history, and cuisine. “I discovered early that my friends did not eat any of the foods that I ate. My foods were more akin to West Africa, you know, and very much pronounced in that way,” he says. It wan't until he moved to New York as an adult, that he assimilated the value of that diasporic connective tissue. “Food was a big part of cultural expression and identity of the African diaspora,” he says.
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