The Places Worth Going When You’re Done Going Everywhere
There's a type of travel that accumulates destinations the way some people accumulate possessions — more countries, more cities, more passport stamps. And then there's a type of travel that slows down and asks a different question: which places are actually worth going back to?
The second type is harder to write about because it's more personal. But it tends to produce better trips.
This is a list of the places that reward depth over breadth — where the fourth visit teaches you something the first three didn't, where the restaurant scene has enough range to eat well for a week without repeating, where the reason you're there isn't just visual.
Napa and Sonoma, California
California wine country is the obvious starting point for food-and-wine-focused travel from within the US, and t...
