{"id":40572,"date":"2022-12-01T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=40572"},"modified":"2022-11-29T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:00:12","slug":"giving-thanks-bites-of-history-crazy-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/giving-thanks-bites-of-history-crazy-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks\/Bites of History\/Crazy Cap"},"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\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\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Giving Thanks<\/strong><br>Today is Thanksgiving in the USA. Seth Godin released\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2015\/11\/a-thanksgiving-reader\/?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">The Thanksgiving Reader<\/a>\u00a0back in 2015 to focus on gratitude as a group project, kind of like a Passover Seder but without all the references to suffering. If it\u2019s too woo-woo for your family, you might just want to listen to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/akimbo\/episode\/cohesion-and-commerce-65549941?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">his podcast episode<\/a>\u00a0on how we got socially engineered into buying so many cranberries and turkeys. Meanwhile, thank you for reading this newsletter. We are grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Trivia and World-Changing History<\/strong><br>If you\u2019re interested in historic stories and often ask, \u201cWhy is it that\u2026?\u201d out loud, then here\u2019s another podcast you might like: the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/everything-everywhere.com\/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast\/?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Everywhere Podcast<\/a>. Host Gary Arndt was an original world-circling travel blogger, which made him a sponge of information and curiosity that now leads well to short daily explanations on the history of playing cards, where Alexander the Great is buried, Rapa Nui, and what we know about the legend of Atlantis. (And yes, the history of Thanksgiving.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Easy Water Purification on the Road<\/strong><br>Plastic bottles on the beach are a scourge around the world and the big gyres of them floating around the oceans unseen are even worse. Avoid buying single-use bottles in places where you can\u2019t drink the water by using the rechargeable tech of a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/9rLrQMF?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Crazy Cap<\/a>\u00a0one. This is basically a Swell-type insulated bottle but with a cap that lights up with germ- and bacteria-killing UV rays, rendering that tap water perfectly drinkable. It\u2019s like a SteriPen, but since the light is already attached to your bottle, super-easy to use. Easily pays for itself in the cost savings too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Thailand Is Still a Deal<\/strong><br>So far I\u2019ve been in Bangkok, Phuket, and Koh Lanta on this trip and am finding Thailand prices to be only slightly higher than they were the last time I was here in 2015. Part of that is because I\u2019m pulling from a U.S. dollars account, with the exchange rate mitigating some of the inflation, but it still feels like a terrific value\u2013coming from a guy who lives in Mexico much of the year. Tourism has roared back fast, by the way, with busy airports, hotels, and ferry terminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/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 #28<\/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\/40572"}],"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=40572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40573,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40572\/revisions\/40573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}