Fred Perrotta, founder of the bag company Tortuga, writes about travel hacks like booking business class awards and packing light, plus behind-the-scenes accounts of product development trips to Vietnam. Readers get practical, specific tips and an inside look at making travel gear.
Website: https://www.fredperrotta.com/
Each issue is a literary personal essay about a single Providence, Rhode Island restaurant, blending visit details with the writer's wry reflections on life, friendship and writing. Readers get an idiosyncratic guide to local dining and a well-crafted narrative voice rather than a conventional review.
Veteran restaurant critic Robert Sietsema writes about New York City dining, focusing on inexpensive eats, neighborhood food crawls, and restaurant openings. Readers get specific dish and venue recommendations along with historical and cultural context.
Lee Rosen's newsletter covers the practical and legal realities of living as a full-time traveler and digital nomad, from heat and housing to tax domicile and visa schemes. Writing is personal and carefully argued, with close attention to legal detail and the difference between the nomad's lifestyle and the lives of people who stay put.
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