Travel is more than just visiting places
End of May edition
Greetings!
By now we’ve all had our long weekends/official starts to summer in North America. I hope you had a lovely long weekend. For most of my readers, school will be out within the next month or less, or might already be finished for the year depending on where you live. It’s officially time to start enjoying most of the summer activities or planning short summer getaways, camping trips, or family vacations.
Travel links for those gearing up for summer travel
If you’re planning on booking flights soon, you might want to read this about the best day to book a flight. It used to be Tuesday, but that isn’t necessarily the case anymore. Seems that it depends.
Tips on how to protect your data while travelling. I learned some things from it, not that I’m an expert but I’m also not a novice.
Remember that three-year-long cruise? Well, there are some problems. I read that entire article and my only thought was that I would not sell off most of my possessions to purchase something that only lasts 3 years. I would classify that thing as out of my budget and not make the leap. Thoughts? I do have sympathy for those people who sold off everything to go on this three-year sailing adventure. :(
Travel Tales is Afar magazine’s podcast that I enjoy on occasion. This episode, whether you listen to it or read the transcript, both are available at that link, was a fun read and listen. It is about a Croatian-Irish man who has “Traveled the world. But in all his wanders, he’d never really given his Irish side a chance—until now.”
Museums
I’m not a big jewelry person, but this article about a Cartier exhibit at a museum in Mexico City intrigued me. I’d love to see this! This particular museum was also designed by female architect, Frida Escobedo and her design was inspired by a pre-Columbian Aztec pyramid near Mexico City. If you’d like to read a short and casual interview with Escobedo from 2018, I enjoyed this one and this longer one. Museums are obviously an important part of the tourism scene but are equally important for residents and I like that Escobedo considers the space as a public space.
Consuming
This is the month I downloaded the audiobook app Libby to my phone and I’ve been on a roll. I have listened to Taste: My Life through Food by Stanley Tucci and The Storyteller by Dave Grohl. I like audiobooks but I only like nonfiction when I am listening to a story. I am weird and I know it. I enjoyed both memoirs! I had not read a musician’s autobiography since last winter when I read Keith Richards’s book, which was about 150 pages too long but I still liked it. I like music of all kinds, and I like hearing about and reading about the process of writing and creating. So, I always enjoy the autobiography of a musician.
Currently listening to World Travel and enjoying it. It is the travel essays and stories of Anthony Bourdain, focused on food, collected and compiled by writer Laurie Woolever. It is narrated by different friends and family from Bourdain’s life as well. So it has been nice. to have different voices reading it.
Still reading Michelle Obama’s book too! I have been furiously knitting a few things so that doesn’t leave as much time to hold books and look at them.
That’s it for this edition! I have some fun things for the next edition.
Thanks for reading,
Sonya