{"id":40441,"date":"2022-11-03T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40441"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:54:00","slug":"flexible-glue-cool-neighborhoods-vagabonding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/flexible-glue-cool-neighborhoods-vagabonding\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible Glue\/Cool Neighborhoods\/Vagabonding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See past editions\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getrevue.co\/profile\/nomadico?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">here,<\/a>\u00a0where your friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Flexible Fix-it Packets<\/strong><br>I first read about the product\u00a0<strong>Sugru<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.recomendo.com\/?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Recomendo<\/em><\/a>\u00a0newsletter run by my partners Kevin, Mark, and Claudia. It has since become a favorite gift and a fix-almost-anything item that is easy to travel with on adventure trips. It\u2019s basically like stiff Play-doh that retains its shape after being exposed to air for a while, but stays flexible. Among other things, I\u2019ve used it to replace a zipper pull, fix a frayed electric cord, and repair a shoe sole. $10 for a 3-pack (in 3 colors) or\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/RnIlo?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">$20 for 8 at Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Coolest Neighborhoods Around the World<\/strong><br>Most travel listicles written by one writer are quite predictable or surface-level , but this crowdsourced\u00a0<em>TimeOut<\/em>\u00a0one about the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/travel\/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">world\u2019s 51 coolest neighborhoods<\/a>\u00a0has me adding places to my upcoming travel itineraries. Number one is only three hours away from my home base (Colonia Americana in Guadalajara) and number nine (Barrio Yungay in Santiago) I\u2019ll check out next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Don\u2019t Base Your Travel Choices on Instagram Dreaminess\u2026<\/strong><br>For neighborhoods that don\u2019t turn out to be so cool IRL, we\u2019ve got the \u201cPositano Problem\u201d \u2013 when everyone floods a place because of the dreamy Instagram photos and then complains about the high prices and crowds. There are loads of great quotes in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/23388038\/positano-travel-instagram?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">this Vox article<\/a>, including this one: \u201cNo matter how many recommendations you receive from friends or strangers on the internet, the same ones will have been given to thousands of other people who are just as unhappy to see you there as you are them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Vagabonding, Two Decades Later<\/strong><br>It has been 20 years since Rolf Potts published the seminal book\u00a0<em>Vagabonding<\/em>\u00a0that launched who knows how many thousands of round-the-world trips. He just released a follow-up this month called\u00a0<em>The Vagabond\u2019s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel<\/em>. You can catch him talking about it on various podcasts, including Tim Ferris\u2019. See more info\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/V3xIM?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">at the Amazon page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40443,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40441\/revisions\/40443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}