This list of 50 Travel Tips by Kevin Kelly (author of lists of advice) kind of broke my brain the first time I read it: “Crash a wedding. You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest!” and “For a truly memorable trip, go without reservations, just winging it along the way”??? Sir? Some of us have anxiety!
But it’s still a fun list to read and imagine being the kind of person who can say confidently, “Sketchy travel plans and travel to sketchy places are ok.” And the links to places like the train travel planning site are really fun to get lost in.
(Speaking of travel, was this guided tour of Renaissance print culture in Venice and Rome made in a lab to appeal to me? I think so. “Beginning in Rome and continuing to the first site of printing in Italy, the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, the tour introduces the new technology and what this entailed for the way books were made, bought, collected and read. It shows how the transition from manuscript to print took place, and presents the leading personalities involved in the advancement of printing – cardinals, aristocrats, scholars, printers and booksellers.”)