A personal travel blog with first-person trip writeups, mainly from Antarctica and Buenos Aires, plus reflections on photography, sketchbooks and journaling. Readers get detailed itinerary-style narratives and a look at the author's slower, more analog approach to travel.
Website: https://www.joshgates.org/
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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