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Hobbit Houses Where You Can Binge Watch the New Lord of the Rings TV Series on Amazon Prime

By Mary Cate Long / February 22, 2022 /

Lord of the Rings enthusiasts rejoice! Not only has the countdown begun to LOTR prequel series The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime Video, but it turns out you don’t need to travel all the way to Middle Earth (aka New Zealand) to immerse yourself in a hobbit hole. These are some of the most…

Three Airbnbs You’ve Seen on the Big Screen

By Mary Cate Long / February 8, 2022 /

Ready to take off for the big screen? Here are some destinations all over North America where you can enjoy a weekend of role-playing your favorite scenes or just a regular weekend. Which film backdrop is the spot you’d prefer to make your debut? Idyllic Lakeside Cabin from Maid $201/night In Netflix’s hit series Maid,…

Book an Extended Stay at These Remote Worker-Friendly Airbnbs

By Mary Cate Long / January 31, 2022 /

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…

Lubbock’s Most Interesting House May Soon Be an Airbnb

By Mary Cate Long / January 20, 2022 /

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.  The house is all organic shape and rusty, red metal, defying gravity on four comparatively thin legs.…

Join The Austin Artists Flocking to Historic Bastrop, Texas

By Mary Cate Long / January 11, 2022 /

As people from across the country (ahem, California) flee sky-high rent and congested traffic by moving to Texas, many of the major cities are finding that the incoming crowds are ironically bringing in the very things the new residents were running from. That is certainly true for Austin, where the booming growth of residents and…