Welcome to The Travel Wire

The new name for the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter.

Welcome to the Nomadic Notes Travel Newsletter, now known as The Travel Wire.

As I mentioned in last week's newsletter, this travel newsletter is being rebranded. Actually, the newsletter is being split in two. The Travel Wire will be the home for travel articles, where I curate the best travel reads of the week. Nomadic Notes will become a monthly(ish?) newsletter, where I will post updates about Nomadic Notes and random personal travel bloggy updates. This format will probably evolve as well, so I will settle on a publishing schedule and format once I get started.

You won't need to resubscribe for this. I will send out a Nomadic Notes Newsletter this month on a separate list, and you can unsubscribe from either list if you only want one of the emails. I will send emails as "The Travel Wire (by Nomadic Notes)" until we are used to the name. The Travel Wire will eventually be at thetravelwire.net.

This newsletter bifurcation will mean I can grow the travel reads format into its own brand. There will be not much difference in my current output, but it will clearly define each newsletter offering.

Join The Travel Wire Facebook Group

I enjoy curating travel reads every week, though I wonder how many articles I am missing. I'm not sure if narrative writing is dying out or if these articles are harder to find in this post-Twitter noisy social media era.

I want a place where people can submit travel articles and have a place to browse good travel reads, so for now I have started a Facebook group: Join The Travel Wire Facebook Group to submit and/or read articles.

Facebook isn’t my ideal preference, but it’s where most people are online. I administer a niche railway Facebook group, and 1.7k members have joined with very little promotion of the site. Ultimately, I would like a self-hosted forum and email list, so I will work that out after getting established.

Travel reads

• Wandering thoughts #1: Would you travel without an itinerary?

• The purgatory of modern travel: when is travel not worth It?

“Modern travel can be quite maddening. So why do so many of us willingly put ourselves through this gauntlet of misery to reach our destinations?”

• The ghost of Kyiv

“Ukrainian resistance and defiance shine through war-time street art.”

• Germany’s green vacations: Berlin’s sustainable tourism

• World Nomad Games: The spectacular 'Olympics' of Central Asia

• ‘Just the right amount of edge’: how Marseille became 2024’s on-trend city

• It’s party time on the Stockholm-Helsinki Ferry (archive)

“The 16-hour trip between the two northern European cities is a festive summer ritual, with plenty of singing, gambling, limbo contests and maybe a bit too much to drink.”

• Hiking the new Stockholm Archipelago Trail

• Falling for Autumn | Switzerland Tourism (YouTube)

“All Roger Federer wants to do is make a film about the beautiful autumn in Switzerland with the actor Mads Mikkelsen. But Mads is taking his preparation in the Swiss countryside perhaps a little too seriously...”

• Meet the man who traveled solely on public transit from Canada to Mexico

• The greatest road hotels in America

“Classic motor lodges are in a comeback era. These are our 27 favorites across America.”

• By sleeper train to Scotland for a Highlands tour – lakes, mountains, whisky, Harry Potter (archive)

Submit a travel read

Articles for newsletter consideration can be submitted to The Travel Wire Facebook Group.

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James Clark – Chiang Mai, Thailand.