Recently in the press there has a been a focus on the smartest way to vacation, often citing a study from Finland which found that more frequent trips are the best way to use up vacation days and that 8 days is the ideal duration.
This is where The 8 Day Challenge came into play in 2017. The objective: to spend 8 days in each destination and immerse myself in the culture and rhythm of the city. The chosen cities were diverse: a mix of ‘top tens’ and places that people dream about but rarely get to – in my travels the city that most Americans tell me they “wish they’d gone to but hadn’t yet” was New Orleans – and "where?" destinations.