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Here’s a taste of what you get:
- Where’s the Funny? A personal essay or original travel humor piece, from the United States or anywhere on the globe.
- In Practicum: Useful information on a specific topic, such as credit card car rental insurance or the Global Entry customs program.
- Listicle: A “Top 10” or “Best of” type list generated from a recent trip.
- Quick spins: Up to three snippets on just about anything travel related (e.g. a book, author, news item, survey result, etc.).
- BLIP: The funniest cartoon you’ll never understand!
- Go!: An occasional high-level review of a piece of trip gear (e.g. camera, luggage, adapter etc.).
- Photastic! A few of my favorite photos, from near and far.
Each newsletter features a fabulous, travel-related quote. And there may even be a horror story or two about my interactions with Instagram influencers. Check out the newsletter archives below:
2021
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 9, March 2021: From the editor: The (COVID) Road Less Traveled • Cartoon: BLIP • Article: LIBRARY 3.0: Fab Labs + Maker Rooms Spark Young (and Old) Minds • Listicle: COVIDETOUR2020 Fun Facts • In Practicum: New Balance X-Wide Trail Runners: My Feet Thank You • Quick Spins: PORTABLE POWER: A Cure for the Camping-with-Sleep-Apnea Blues; WEARABLE WORKHORSE: Garmin’s Solar-Powered Instinct Series Watch • Photstic: The Hiawatha Trail, near Wallace, Idaho
2020
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 8, June 2020: From the editor: Murderland: Why does Australia want to Kill Me? • Cartoon: BLIP • Listicle: 5 Things I Will Never Eat (Again) • In Practicum: Road Trippin’: There’s an App for That • Quick Spins: DIGITAL NOMADS: Barbados and other cures for COVID-19; Travel in Turmoil: The latest … ; and, Birders go berserk for watch data website • Photos: Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 7, May 2020: From the editor: (Inappropriate) Laughter is the Best Medicine: 50 Minutes on a Jam-Packed Train from Tokyo • Cartoon: BLIP • Listicle: Favorite Beach to Swim While Surrounded by a Raging Inferno … and 3 more … • In Practicum: Future of Travel: Curated COVID-19 News from (So-Called) Industry Experts • Quick Spins: Walter De Maria’s world and It’s a Wrap: Christo is Dead • Photos: Edinburgh, Scotland
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 6, April 2020: From the editor: Anxiety Arc: 30 Steps to Wellness (Right) • Cartoon: BLIP • Listicle: 5 Free Things in Chicago • In Practicum: Airlines 2.0: Carriers do what they do best – make air travelers miserable • Quick Spins: Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona; “Hotel of Doom” in Pyongyang; and, Unfinished Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota • Photos: Colca Canyon, Peru
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 5, March 2020: From the editor: Travel and Fear • WTF? in Chanute, Kansas • Meet Osa and Martin Johnson: The first travel influencers • 10 Things: From a 4,983 mile road trip • 10 Things: From Arizona • In Practicum: Why I still bother to carry a real camera • Quick Spins: The America the Beautiful annual pass; Hotel Rez Redux: Is anything better than Booking.com? • Photos: Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 4, February 2020: From the editor: Destination woo-WHO Wuhan • WTF? in Corruption: 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index • Listicle: Things to do in Québec City • Trip Planner: How to rent a minivan … for a month? • Presto Christo: Art on a grand scale • Airplanes / helicopters vs Cars: Transportation mode death index • Live like Royalty: Rent a Scottish castle • Photos: Jackass penguin colony at Stony Point in South Africa
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 3, January 2020: On the road: Never be afraid to ask questions • WTF? in Plymouth, New Hampshire • Holiday listicles from the Queen City of Charlotte (and Cincinnati) • Rental car credit card insurance 101 • Where the wars are: Your guide to global conflict • My airline favorite: Stroopwafel Dutch treats • The second most expensive spice: Vanilla beans • Photos from Fish Creek, Wisconsin in Door County
2019
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 2, December 2019: Essay from Uruguay 1989 • What else to do in Cooperstown, New York • How to apply for a Real ID driver’s license • InterNations expat best/worst place survey results • Reader’s Digest’s worst tourists behavior • Vintage See the USA and new Little Passports games • Photos from a bike ride to Parc de la Chute-Montmorency, Québec, just outside Québec City
WTF? NEWSLETTER, Volume 1, November 2019: Inspiration for the WTF? travel blog newsletter • La Catrina, life and death in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico • Redux: the Global Entry Trusted Traveler program • UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the USA • Author Paul Theroux’s On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey • Insta-DAMNED spousal bullying from Instagram influencers • Photos of fabulous San Miguel de Allende