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Lauren Keith

Kansas City

Guidebook Author and Travel Writer at Freelance

✍️ Freelance travel writer & editor 🌎 Between the Midwest & Middle East 🌻 Kansas girl using her ruby slippers 🇬🇧 Former Londoner 📸 I’m better on Instagram

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  • 3 weeks ago | cluballiance.aaa.com | Lauren Keith

    Above image: View from Angels Landing in Zion National Park; photo by Ujjwal/stock.adobe.comNowhere else in America packs in national parks like Utah. Mother Nature has worked her magic in the Beehive State, sculpting iconic red-rock arches that frame distant snow-capped mountains, carving canyons into thousands of vertical feet of sandstone and punctuating high-altitude desert slopes with exclamation-point-shaped rock spires called hoodoos.

  • 1 month ago | lonelyplanet.com | Lauren Keith

    The Pacific Surfliner travels along the coastline in Del Mar, California © AmtrakMore than a century ago, when the first US national parks were formed, most visitors didn't arrive by car or in RVs, but on trains. Automobiles were still prohibitively expensive, and there were no interstate highways then – most existing thoroughfares would have made for a rough road trip anyways.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | thetimes.com | Lauren Keith

  • Feb 19, 2025 | lonelyplanet.com | Lauren Keith |Sarah Kuta

    Think riding the rails is a thing of the past in the USA? Think again. Although the USA has the largest network of roads in the world, it’s also an ideal country to see by train. You can stare out of huge picture windows for hours as snowy mountains, waving grasslands, expansive deserts and vibrant cities roll past. Don’t expect an experience like riding the bullet trains in Japan or the expansive high-speed railway system in Spain, however.

  • Feb 17, 2025 | lonelyplanet.com | Lauren Keith

    There’s no getting around the sheer size and scale of the USA – it’s an absolute, supersized whopper – and the best way to see it all is via train. If you’re planning a trip around the USA, you already know that you have a lot of ground to cover: more than 3.8 million sq miles of epic mountain ranges, massive deserts, dense forests and seemingly endless prairies sprinkled with cities both world-renowned and lesser known.

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Lauren Keith
Lauren Keith @noplacelike_it
25 Apr 22

Spent the last six weeks in #Egypt, where every day is an adventure. A thread of some favorite moments: off the plane and into a falafel and perfume scam, the Umm Kulthum shisha I should have purchased, شاي بنعناع, impromptu lunch under a highway overpass. https://t.co/DkzQPK4EZq

Lauren Keith
Lauren Keith @noplacelike_it
8 Mar 22

I'm so excited to be heading back to #Egypt – and to be working on a guidebook with a major publisher again! Looking for PR and tourism contacts plus info on new openings across the country, but in #Luxor and #Aswan especially. #journorequest #prrequest https://t.co/L1m0zQurep

Lauren Keith
Lauren Keith @noplacelike_it
13 Aug 21

RT @AndBrent: I wish I loved anything as much as Kansas City people love wearing anything that advertises the fact they’re from KC when tra…