4 Small Towns That Give Off Perfect Fall Vibes

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4 Small Towns That Give Off Perfect Fall Vibes

There is a thing about that smaller-town New England attraction that beckons us – almost just about every seasonal Hallmark film has a equivalent setting. We want to be surrounded by these autumn hues, entrance porches adorned with pumpkins, mums and hay bales, and white picket fences adorned with garland as we sip on our very hot coffee (or pumpkin spice latte) to preserve warm even though putting on fingerless hand-knit gloves. Here’s 4 places wherever you can come across these idyllic settings and routines which will make you come to feel as if you had been on the established of Gilmore Ladies: a pleasurable, Slide television favorite.

Scituate, Rhode Island

The Ocean Condition may possibly be a lot more renowned for its waterfront towns, but it is also household to greatly forested locations and an abundance of white church steeples jutting previously mentioned the fall foliage. Just 15 miles

by Shante Abdo — December 17, 2022 in Travel Card

How COVID-19 travel restrictions are hurting border towns

El Paso, Texas — About a mile from the Paso Del Norte International Bridge, which connects downtown El Paso to Mexico, Emilio Mendiola sorts neon snapbacks into bins labeled reading “Special $2.99 plus Tax,” — and what was 90% of his business.

“I’m not kidding. It’s that bad.” The manager of “Mr. Hats” has let go of all but two of his full-time employees since the international bridges closed to noncitizens whose travel into the U.S. is deemed nonessential. The closure has shut down tourism, shopping and dining business from the neighboring Mexican city of Juárez that once fueled rows of El Paso’s vendors — and it has cost Mendiola 90% of his business. Nearly 33.6 million people crossed international bridges into El Paso from Mexico in 2019, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

A customer browses bins at “Mr. Hats” in downtown El Paso, Texas on July 10,

With travel restrictions barely easing, U.S.-Canada border towns stuck in economic limbo

BLAINE — At Border Mailbox and Parcel, just minutes from the U.S.-Canada border, owner Doug Hornsby all but trips over the economic fallout of the pandemic every time he comes to work.

Before COVID-19, Hornsby’s customers were primarily Canadians who used his Blaine address for their online purchases to take advantage of cheaper U.S. shipping.

But that bit of globalization ground to a halt in March 2020, when the pandemic shut the border to nonessential travelers — and turned Hornsby’s shop into a kind of package purgatory, with thousands of unretrieved purchases.

“I have stuff that’s been here 16 months,” the 71-year-old grouses as he steps around a 65-inch flat screen TV that showed up last spring and hasn’t moved since.

Nor is it clear when it will move. Canada recently announced it will start easing some border restrictions, on July 5. But other restrictions have been extended through July

by Shante Abdo — June 26, 2021 in Costo Travel