Scared Shitless in Switzerland
When my wife and I were in the mountain village of Murren, Switzerland back in 2015, I discovered that the local sport shop offered...
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Sean Conway
Dec 23, 20237 min read
Adventure & Innocence on Lake Millinocket, Maine
I grew up spending my summers and other school vacations with my cousins Mike and Chris, often staying at their father’s house—my Uncle...
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Sean Conway
Jul 30, 20233 min read
Scotland & Its Rugged Isle of Skye
I’m standing in a cluttered minefield of sheep shit on a grassy bluff above the wild Atlantic Ocean on Scotland’s rugged Isle of Skye. A...
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Sean Conway
May 19, 20234 min read
Southern California & A Galaxy Far, Far Away
My brother has lived in California now for nearly fifteen years, and so I’ve been traveling to the west coast to visit a couple times a...
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Sean Conway
Apr 24, 20236 min read
Indiana Jones, 12-Year-Old Me, and the Dial of Destiny
I wonder sometimes where, exactly, my love of travel adventure came from. In past posts, I’ve written about the ambitious and adventurous...
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Sean Conway
Apr 5, 20235 min read
Winter is My Maine Season
Christine and I spent some of our Christmas break up in Rangeley, Maine, a meandering four-hour drive in which one can actually feel time...
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Sean Conway
Dec 8, 20228 min read
Endings & Beginnings in Montpellier, France
As a graduating undergrad student at UMass Lowell, I’d been torn between continuing at the school to complete a Master’s in Education, or...
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Sean Conway
Dec 5, 20227 min read
The Road to Salisbury Beach
I spent my formative coming-of-age years summering at Salisbury Beach, a community on Massachusetts’ north shore, the last town before...
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Sean Conway
Oct 26, 20224 min read
Squam Lake, New Hampshire
Over the course of the one hour, forty minute drive from our home in northern Massachusetts to beautiful Holderness, New Hampshire on...
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Sean Conway
Sep 22, 20228 min read
The French Alps, Finally
The French Alps had been on our list for years, always popping up on Best Of articles online and in travel books, in Instagram feeds,...
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Sean Conway
Sep 19, 20227 min read
A Return to Ireland
I’d been to Ireland three times before, but this would be the first for my brother, so it was an opportunity for me to show him around a...
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Sean Conway
Feb 15, 20226 min read
The Pastel Palette of Italy’s Cinque Terre
Pixar’s 2021 film Luca looked awfully familiar. The coming-of-age story of sea monsters living incognito among the humans of a small...
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Sean Conway
Jul 19, 20213 min read
Land of Fire & Ice
“Amazing.” “Stunning.” “Incredible.” “So, so beautiful.” I’d been hearing superlatives decorating any mention of Iceland like confetti,...
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Sean Conway
May 14, 20214 min read
Building a Tradition in the Cayman Islands
Before our 2010 honeymoon, Christine and I had taken just two trip together: the first was an April vacation in Clearwater Beach in...
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Sean Conway
Apr 25, 20215 min read
Is Provincetown, Cape Cod the Key West of Massachusetts?
During the summer of 2012 I had the opportunity to visit both Key West, Florida, and then, later, Provincetown at the very tip of Cape...
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Sean Conway
Apr 7, 20216 min read
A Deep Dive in Tulum, Mexico
Tulum was the third chapter in the Jeff trilogy. Christine and I had traveled to Belize with my brother, Jeff, back in 2016, and then...
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Sean Conway
Mar 30, 20210 min read
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Sean Conway
Mar 11, 20214 min read
The Fairy Tale of Prague
It has the best-preserved Old Town in perhaps all of Europe. Called the City of A Hundred Spires, and for good reason, its square is...
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Sean Conway
Mar 4, 20215 min read
A Stroll Before Sunrise through Vienna, Austria
We arrived in beautiful and historic Vienna with our Rick Steves guidebook in hand, the self-guided walking tour of the city bookmarked...
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Sean Conway
Feb 22, 20216 min read
Exploring New England on a Pair of Skis
For a while, our travel years were a little out of balance. My wife and I usually had an ambitious summer itinerary that often included...
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Sean Conway
Feb 11, 20215 min read
J’adore Quebec City
Way back in the day, Christine and her family took a road trip to Quebec City, the entire family stuffed into their 1970s station wagon:...
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Sean Conway
Feb 4, 20214 min read
Barcelona's Towering Sandcastle
From a distance, I’ve always thought the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain looked like an elaborate sandcastle. On my 2006 visit to the...
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Sean Conway
Jan 28, 202112 min read
The Journey to Land's End
In my recent novel, Land’s End, a young brother and sister are kidnapped by their estranged father, a man they’ve only seen sporadically...
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Sean Conway
Jan 22, 20217 min read
Belfast and Northern Ireland’s Antrim Coast are all Killer, No Filler
Belfast, Northern Ireland was our home base for a week in 2019 for my sister-in-law’s wedding. We’d been to the Republic of Ireland a...
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