Lisa Abend
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Editor at The Unplugged Traveler
Freelance journalist writing for @TIME, @nytimes, @afarmedia and lots of others.
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1 week ago |
unpluggedtraveler.substack.com | Lisa Abend
I should have known better. I’ve learned that after hotels, the most nerve-wracking arena of unplugged travel for a lot of people is restaurants. I’ve written about the reasons for this before— about how, in our food-obsessed age, the possibility of a bad or even so-so meal has come to seem like an unacceptable risk, and so we arm ourselves with lists and recommendations and annotated maps pulled from all corners of the internet as a talisman against a ‘wasted’ meal.
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2 weeks ago |
afropages.fr | Lisa Abend
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4 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Lisa Abend
As Franck Verhaeghe and two friends planned a March trip to Mexico City, they plotted out not only where they would stay and which museums they would visit but also the language they would speak: French. "It's not that I think it's unsafe for Americans," said Verhaeghe, 65, who lives in California, but "I can imagine people there aren't very happy with us.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Lisa Abend
2 hours agoHonduras: Honduras Firefighters’ Heroic Sea Rescue Recovers Final Roatan Crash VictimCoxen Hole, Honduras - March 18, 2025 Dramatic video footage has captured the heroic efforts of Honduras Fire Department members, known as Bomberos Honduras, as they battled the sea to recover the last victim of a tragic plane crash off Roatan, Bay Islands, on Monday night. Their relentless mission in treacherous waters brought the death toll to 12.
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Lisa Abend
As Franck Verhaeghe and two friends planned a March trip to Mexico City, they plotted out not only where they would stay and which museums they would visit but also the language they would speak: French. "It's not that I think it's unsafe for Americans," said Mr. Verhaeghe, 65, who lives in California, but "I can imagine people there aren't very happy with us.
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From Bologna, where I uncovered more than one form of appetite https://t.co/ubOi2rIqHX https://t.co/uXPjWeZhgr
RT @kjlagrave: Were you ever tempted to buy a one-euro home in a small Italian village? Yeah, me too. For @AFARmedia, @LisaAbend reports on…
So, I've started a Substack about traveling without the internet. No Googling, no GPS, no online bookings, no Instagram, no restaurant ranking apps, no Uber, no AirBnB, & definitely no mindless scrolling as coping device against existential angst. https://t.co/pLXxDQ2Kjr https://t.co/fc50Hkaav3
