Candy's Dirt

Remote work isn’t going anywhere and it’s revolutionizing how people are incorporating travel into their daily lives. According to fascinating new data from Airbnb, one out of every five nights booked in their third quarter were stays of 28 days or longer. Many went for even more ambitious stays with 100,000 Airbnb users booking stays of…

The super-rich have different problems than us ordinary folks. Take business mogul Ron Perelman, for example. While his billions have taken a major hit — plummeting from $19B to its current $2.7B—the world’s once-richest man is literally cleaning house in pursuit of a simpler life. That means Perelman’s epic Superyacht is on the market. Basically a penthouse on water, this boat…

Lubbock, Texas, was the unlikely scene where one man spent over nearly 35 years creating a house that was intended far more to be sculpture than livable. Robert Bruno built the entire thing himself out of Corten steel.  However, the house wasn’t (and still isn’t) finished. The steel behemoth was bequeathed to his daughter, then…

Ventura is one of the few remaining pockets of the Southern California coast that is still somewhat affordable. Not for long, though.  Home to plenty of families and young professionals, the beach town is steadily growing. The town boasts a generally laid-back vibe with lots of coffee shops, parks, and several good surf spots. Ventura…