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Romanticize It: Introducing Transit Girl Summer
I try to live my life in part by the novelty effect, or how making new memories can slow down time (or at least your perception of it) because you’re not in the same routines that blur the days together.
August 8, 2025
Una Ciudad, Un Sistema (One City, One System): A Mexico City Travel Guide
For no particular reason at all, I wanted to make sure I was not physically or emotionally in the United States on January 20th, and I wanted to explore a new area that has always been on my list that wasn’t too far to get to for a long weekend. Before I knew it, I was on a plane to Mexico City to meet up with a friend.
February 10, 2025
Travel Guide: Biking From the Border to Boston
The Border to Boston trail is a proposed 70-mile route that will eventually connect Seabrook, New Hampshire to downtown Boston via Newburyport, Salem, and Lynn along abandoned railroad rights-of-way.
August 27, 2024
Rail Reflections from the California Zephyr
Birthdays can be a lot. There are a lot of expectations of what you should do, who you should do it with, what it should feel like, what it should look like to other people.
August 19, 2024
A Streetsblog Field Guide to Sidewalk Wildflowers
Learn how to identify common plants of the concrete jungle.
July 14, 2023
Travel Guide: A Cozy Weekend Getaway To the Coast
Destination: Ipswich – a cute small coastal town with a population of 13,785 people about 30 miles northeast of Boston.
November 9, 2022
Travel Guide: Rails to Trails to Ice Cream
This Sunday is National Ice Cream Day – here's our guide to ice cream shops along the Northern Strand and Bruce Freeman trails.
July 15, 2022
Travel Guide: Wayland’s Aqueducts and the New Cochituate Rail Trail
I initially stumbled on the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham by chance last year. Since then, two substantial bridges over major roadways were craned in, and earlier this fall, the trail’s new extension into Natick Center officially opened to the public.
Juliana Cherston
November 6, 2021
Travel Guide: The Seashore Trolley Museum
Take a ride on a century-old streetcar through the woods of Maine.
August 27, 2021
