Tourists flock around the shoreline, snapping photographs of rowboats and lobster traps. “Youkoso, Keipukoddo e,” a restaurant worker shouts: Welcome to Cape Cod. But I’m not on Cape Cod: I’m […]
Travel
POSTCARDS
Lost on the Highway to Topeka
An Indie alum reports on her summer-long road trip
INTERSTATE 94 — Who knew there existed two Topekas? Certainly not I, fresh, in June, from my yearlong stint as the Independent’s crime-Dougie-dredging correspondent and 1,000 miles into a summer road […]
DISPATCHES
Postcards From the Pandemic
Tuning in to the Outer Cape from a masked lap around the U.S.A.
In the fall, after finishing a summer fellowship at this newspaper, I began a pandemic-induced leave of absence from college. I dreamed of a normal gap year, in which I’d […]
CREATIVE ISOLATION
They Brought Paris to Truro
Pack up for a pretend trip that’s plenty of fun
Sisters Violet and Hazel Yingling of Truro were going to go all the way to Paris, France, on an extra-special vacation this spring. They had to put their trip on […]
SURFING
At Home in a Portuguese Surf Town
The tide and the wind are the same in any language
The sun is warm on my shoulders. The salt is starting to pinch the skin at the corners of my eyes as it dries. A small white cup of coffee […]
