“50 things I know”/SOLO/Travel tip
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. “50 things I know” Sasha Chapin, author of All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything, recently wrote a list of...
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Campside
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Comfort Eating with Nick Cave / All About Eggs
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View ArticleWalk and Talk/Close.city/The Pearl Dive
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Personal Genetics
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50 Museums to Blow Your Mind / The Godfather Notebook
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What’s in my NOW? — Grey Forge LeFey
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View ArticleeSim Cards/Good Travel Pants/Airline Policy Changes
An eSim User Experience Claudia from our sister newsletter Recomendo just got back from South America and sent this tip: I usually stay offline while traveling abroad and use my phone only when I’m...
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Gar’s Tips & Tools – Issue #179
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View ArticleRetro Recomendo: Alternative Search
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started seven years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations....
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Strange Foods
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A Child of Books / Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy
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View ArticleSpoken.io/Digital bookshelf/Cordless Tire Inflator
Sign up here to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox. Compare home furnishing prices I recently discovered Spoken.io, a website that reveals the practice of “white-labeling” in the furniture and...
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Bike Touring
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Ice Boy / The Red Rooster Cookbook
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View ArticleMost Expensive Cities/Airbnb Insurance/Online Passport Renewal
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View ArticleOnline passport renewal/No-slip hangers/Explain that Stuff
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Skateboards
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