Gili Air, Southeast Asia
Gili Air: Car-Free Coral Soul
No Engines, Anywhere: Zero cars, zero motorbikes, zero scooters on the entire island - it's cidomo (horse cart), bicycle, or your own feet, and after two day…
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Nice, Western Europe
Nice: French Riviera's Niçois Soul
Pebbles, Not Sand: Nice's beaches are galets (smooth pebbles), not sand - locals wear water shoes and laugh at tourists hobbling barefoot to the water. Bring…
St. George, North America
St. George: Red Rock Desert, Utah's Dixie Soul
"Utah's Dixie" Is a Loaded Nickname: LDS pioneers sent south in the 1860s to grow cotton called the region "Dixie" after the American South, and the name stu…
San Juan, North America
San Juan: Old Forts, New Rhythms
No Passport, No Customs, Different Everything: San Juan is US territory, so mainlanders skip immigration and use dollars, but the culture, language, and rhyt…
Santa Rosa, North America
Santa Rosa: Wine Country Redwood Soul
The County Seat Nobody Photographs: Santa Rosa is Sonoma County's largest city and its actual county seat, yet the postcards all go to Sonoma Plaza and Heald…
Boise, North America
Boise: City of Trees, Treasure Valley Soul
The Bench Isn't a Bench: Locals casually say "heading up the Bench" or "down on the Bench" to mean the elevated shopping and residential terraces south of th…