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How to Spend a Week in Banff, Canada

Lush evergreen forests and crystal glacier lakes. I’d already visited Vancouver years ago, but our week in Banff made me fall in love with Canada all over again. After flying into Calgary, we rented a car and made the hour-and-a-half…

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How I Found an Apartment in France

Once I landed my job working in cultural exchanges in southern France, I had a new mission. I needed to find a place to live as an American living in France. I had previously lived with a French family, which…

Reflections on Five Years in France

Five whole years ago, I boarded a transatlantic flight that changed my life. That fateful day began a chapter that will forever mark my life. No, that’s not an overstatement. What was supposed to be a short gap year turned…