Jen Rose Smith is an award-winning writer and editor living in Vermont's Green Mountains, where she writes deeply reported features on travel, culture, sustainability, adventure and place. Her work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, National Geographic, CNN, and many other outlets. jenniferrosesmith @ gmail.com

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“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

Freya Stark