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Editor in Chief @TravelLeisure. Mom of Bobby, wife to Rob, my travel buddies. Opinions are my own.
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The Quiet Payoff

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By Jacqueline Gifford Verified, Francesco Lastrucci
| Travel + Leisure Verified
AS WE BOARDED the 90-minute ferry from Naples to Ischia, all I could think about was how similar it felt to standing in line at a theme park. Anticipation and anxiety hung in the air, along with the faint, sweet smell of sunscreen. My eight-year-old son, Bobby, and husband, Rob, kept fidgeting in the relentless August heat. But we took it all in stride, because a big reward—that roller-coaster high of an Italian island vacation—was waiting on the other side.
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New York State of Mind

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By Jacqueline Gifford Verified, Anne M. Menke, Sarah Gore Reeves
| Travel + Leisure Verified
THE CONTENTS of one Manhattan city block could fuel an entire neighborhood. It might house a world-class museum, street vendors vying for space, and office skyscrapers abutting 19th-century tenements. All of it—inhabitants included—adds up to something greater than the sum of its parts. The Waldorf Astoria New York occupies a full block, which made its closure, spanning 3,058 days, two presidential elections, and one pandemic, all the more noticeable.
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Spotted in the Wild

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By Jacqueline Gifford Verified
| Travel + Leisure Verified
OUR GUIDE, Dux Mareja, threw out his arm like a shield. “Step around,” he warned, ushering my family down the main pathway of andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge (from $1,850 per person, all-inclusive), a 12-suite property on the edge of Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve. Thirty seconds earlier, we had been gorging on pastries at base camp, a structure resembling a pangolin, with wood shingles for scales.
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