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Recommended by Chris Tharp

Born Without Borders

By Nolan Yuma

Building bridges across divides.

Nolan is a man who grew up wandering the world, and he makes it, and his deep obersvations, his focus.

- Chris Tharp

Irregular’s Newsletter

By Irregular Medic

Medic reporting from Ukraine. Military and geo-political analysis.

Brent and Michael Are Going Places

By Michael Jensen

The adventures, insights, and travel tips of a gay nomad couple exploring the world. A "Substack Featured" Newsletter! Also seen on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN.com.

These guys travel the world, stay in a place for months, and let us know what's it like, warts and all. The newsletter is honest, funny, and smart, and also filled with a quiet joy that's refreshing.

- Chris Tharp

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

The Daily Grog

By Skylar Renslow

Writing and photography from the in-between places, for those who notice what others miss. Travel / Food & Drink / Gear

This is a very cool newsletter covering travel and booze, which are among my favorite subjects.

- Chris Tharp

Colin Marshall's Books on Cities

Colin Marshall's essay-reviews of books, new and old, about cities the world over

Coco's Fantabulous Afro

By Gary Trujillo

memoirs about the theater of the absurd.

Gary Trujillo summons all of California's goodness into one potent cocktail: Plenty of Chandler with a taste of Bukowski and stalwarts such as Denis Johnson. He writes with a poetic economy that distills deep stories into bracing vignettes. His work is romantic, subservise, and punk rock in all the right ways.

- Chris Tharp

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

Cintra Wilson Feels Your Pain

Cultural Pith, Terrible Secrets and Quality Rants. Two fresh original pieces and two obscure throwback articles a month, with audio performances and oil paintings for all.

Humorous travelogues

Limp stabs at humour on drugs, filth, travel, science, anything & everything. Thoughts and stories from a life lived shame-free.

This is one of those things I clicked with just a few lines into the first post I read: Wild, confessional tales of drunken ass outs.

- Chris Tharp

The Interesting Times

By Kevin Hockmuth

Essays, stories, and podcasts mapping the intersections of politics, economics, technology, and ethics.

CrashOut by Ioan Grillo

By Ioan Grillo

I write about crime and drugs, police and gangster politics, guerrillas and psychedelics, and the people who live and die through it all.

The Unplugged Traveler

By Lisa Abend

Putting the serendipity back in travel, one offline trip at a time

SparklesofGold’s Substack

Astrologer. Charmer. Catalyst

TRAVELS TO DISTANT CITIES

By Blake Nelson

travel writing and other things

Second Rate Cities

By Zach

A travel blog hitting all the cities you won't visit, by way of running, dive bars, history, and community. Let's get weird and redefine what it means to vacation while finding the next great American city.

AbroadwithBrian

By Brian

Stories from around the world. Observing life in far away corners. Let me tell you all about it.