Tag: travel

  • Katherine Schwartz

    I Survived Cold Spring, NY: Drop your PSLs and Listen to This PSA

    It was the first rain-free weekend last fall and my boyfriend Parker’s first time visiting my new home in Manhattan, where I’d recently moved. “I’m dying to leave the city,” I told him. We brainstormed a day trip upstate where we could drink apple cider, go pumpkin picking, touch grass. Thanks to an Instagram reel, […]

  • Katherine Schwartz

    What Happened in Vegas?

    I spent my five hour Spirit Airlines flight to “Sin City” wedged in a middle seat between two rows of a drunken bachelor party, which I attempted to remedy with Spirit’s “BuzzBallz special”–two canned margaritas and some pretzels. We made our rocky landing around 11 pm, three hours later than when we were supposed to arrive. […]

  • Katherine Schwartz

    Funland

    In the summer of 1977, my mother, Page, and her best friend, Lily, ventured to the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. They left the adults behind on the porch to drink wine, smoke cigarettes, and talk about politics. My grandmother, clad in chunky jewelry with a paisley scarf wrapped around her head, barely noticed her […]