Adeline Vance has been chasing the long way around for as long as she can remember — the back roads, the corner cafés, the family-run inns where someone still remembers your name on the second visit. She writes about the places worth slowing down for and the small pleasures that make travel feel like living: a good meal eaten without hurry, a glass of something local poured by someone who's proud of it, an afternoon with nowhere in particular to be. After decades of wandering and writing it all down, she's come to believe the best trips are measured in the moments you didn't want to end.