From the Aisle Seat is the weekly newsletter of this travel blog. Since its inception in mid-2020, it has evolved quite a bit. Travel is about change, is it not?
As I write this intro, I’m moving this space to Substack. The main reason? They don’t charge me unless I start charging subscribers.
On this page, you’ll find all the old issues of From the Aisle Seat. You can find more recent issues on Substack.
2022
January 7: ๐ A New Vision for From the Aisle Seat
January 14th: ๐ณ Tales of the Floating Petri Dish
January 21st: ๐ What You Need to Know About Planning Travel Right Now
January 28th: ๐ In Honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
February 11th: ๐ Restrictions are Loosening, But Will It Last?
February 18th: ๐ All About Books!
February 25th: ๐บ๐ฆ Standing with Ukraine
March 11th: ๐บ๐ฆ Traveling in Ukraine, 1991-2019
March 18th: ๐ Traveling in 2022: The Tides Seem to Be Turning
March 25th: ๐ These 46 Destinations Have Fully Reopened Their Borders
April 1st: ๐ It’s the First Time This Has Happened Since 2020
April 8th: ๐ Remembering Places That Will Never Be the Same
April 22nd: ๐ Mask mandates were lifted on U.S. transportation
April 29th: ๐ I’m Leaving the USA for the First Time Since 2020
May 6th: ๐ The Unruly Passenger Problem
May 13th: ๐ Some Stories Are Lost to Time
May 20th: ๐ 5 Fun Links
May 27th: ๐ What Oaxaca Taught Me
June 3rd: ๐ Getting My Mojo Back
June 10th: ๐ The Destination That Was Supposed to Disappoint, But Didn’t
June 17th: ๐ From One Chaos to Another
June 24th: ๐ Do We Critique a Culture as an Outsider?
July 1st: ๐ I Promise I Didn’t Forget About Y’all
July 8th: ๐ The Faux Pas of Foreigners
July 15th: ๐ When the Lights Go Down
July 22nd: ๐ The Lie of Full-Time Travel?
July 29th: ๐ On a Bitter Day in Kyiv (and in My Heart)
August 5th: ๐ This Week, I Booked a Flight to Country #24.
August 12th: ๐ Country #24 Is ๐ฉ๐ฐ
2021
January 8th: ๐ฏ๐ต What about the Olympics?
January 15th: โ๏ธ You’ll Soon Need a Negative Covid-19 Test to Enter the U.S.
January 22nd: โ๏ธ A Man Was Living in O’Hare Airport for HOW Long?
January 29th: ๐ณ๐ฑ Everyone Should Visit This Museum at Least Once
February 5th: ๐ No More Mimosas in French Polynesia (For Now)
February 12th: โป๏ธ Hey Siri, How Do You Say “Environmentally-Friendly” in Dutch?
February 19th: ๐ Mallorca in the Era of Covid-19
February 26th: โ๏ธ A United Flight Coasted on Just One Engine Before Landing in Colorado
March 5th: ๐ฆ๐ถ How Many Miles Does It Take to Reach Antarctica?
March 12th: โ๏ธ Vaccine Passports: Turn Down for What?
March 19th: โ๏ธ Being an Unruly Passenger Could Cost $35K, Per the FAA
March 26th: ๐ Tokyo Zoomlympics 2021
April 9th: ๐ผ Traveling to Recover What’s Been Lost
April 16th: ๐ An Israeli Reopening and 100 Days to the Olympic Torch
April 23rd: โ๏ธ Travel Advisories: Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3
April 30th: ๐ You Get a Gap Year! You Get a Gap Year! EVERYONE GETS A GAP YEAR!
May 7th: โ๏ธ When You Pair Pent-up Travel Demand with Shaky Border Reopenings, What Do You Get?
May 14th: ๐ง๐ปโโ๏ธ Another Kind of Sting
May 21st: ๐ Planning is Satisfying, But Experiencing Is What It’s All About
May 28th: โ๏ธ Always, Always Read the Reviews!
June 4th: ๐ Phuket May Offer Hotel Rooms for Just $1 Per Night
June 11th: โ๏ธ Just Me, a Backpack, and Whatever Waits at Arrivals
June 18th: ๐ I’ll Take the Single Car for Who-Knows-How-Much
July 9th: ๐ฏ๐ต What Tokyo’s State of Emergency Means for the Olympics
July 16th: ๐ฆ๐บ Locked Out of Oz
July 23rd: ๐ One Year of From the Aisle Seat!
July 30th: โ๏ธ Travelers May Have to Delta Those Vacation Plans
August 6th: โ๏ธ Have Travelers Gone Mad?
August 13th: โ๏ธ A So-Called Travel Agent Stole Nearly $35,000 from Customers
August 20th: ๐ The 3-Day Weekend That Lasted for Over a Year
August 27th: ๐ฎ๐น If It’s Venice You Want to See, You’ll Pay a Tourist Fee
September 3rd: โบ๏ธ Have a Great Labor Day Weekend!
September 10th: ๐ฅ Please Mind the 459ยบ Gap
September 17th: ๐ I Solemnly Swear I’m Up to Do Good
September 24th: ๐ I Founded a Seasoning Blend Company!
October 1st: ๐ฆ Here’s What Can Happen When No One Goes on Safari
October 8th: โ๏ธ From the Aisle Seat’s Got a Whole New Look!
October 15th: ๐ On Slowing Down and Enjoying the Ride
October 22nd: โจReflect on this Over the Weekend
October 29th: ๐ฉ๐ฝ Today, I’m Thanking 19-Year-Old Sarah
November 5th: ๐ฅ That One Time I Was the Only Foreigner There
November 12th: ๐ On Controversial Destinations
November 19th: ๐ Best of the World?
December 3rd: ๐ The Omen of Omicron
December 10th: ๐ Regretting a Destination
December 17th: ๐ What Will Travel Look Like in 2022?
2020
July 24th: ๐ C is for Covid and…Campers?
July 31st: โ๏ธ This Only Happens Once in 6,000 Years, You Know.
August 7th: ๐ฐ๐ญ Now, THIS is a Destination You Can’t Miss in Southeast Asia
August 14th: โฐThis is the Story of a Socially-Distanced Summer Vacation
August 21st: ๐ถ You Can Sleep Inside a Giant Beagle. No, Really.
August 28th: ๐ Loading: Revenge Vacations
September 4th: ๐ธ๐ณ Akon Could Make Wakanda Forever Happen IRL
September 11th: ๐ฝ It’s Been 19 Years. We Will Never Forget.
September 18th: ๐ There’s an Ancient City Below Sea Level You Can Visit. This is Not a Drill.
September 25th: ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ The Mermaid Bar That Put a Tiny Montana Town On the Map
October 2nd: ๐ Palawan = Unparalleled Paradise
October 9th: ๐ป The Results Are in From Alaska’s Fat Bear Week
October 16th: ๐ฎ๐น Venice Faces a Reckoning and So Does Traveling
October 23rd: ๐ฐ Who Needs Haunted Houses When You’ve Got Haunted Castles?
October 30th: LOCKED because it includes a freebie — subscribe here to get it!
November 6th: LOCKED because it includes a freebie — subscribe here to get it!
November 13th: ๐ฌ๐ธ Yes, There Is a Place Facing Overtourism in 2020
November 20th: โ๏ธ Boeing’s 737 Max is Ready for a Comeback. Are Passengers Ready for It?
November 27th: LOCKED because it’s a gratitude letter to subscribers
December 4th: ๐ I Have a Surprise for You!
December 11th: ๐ถ Frequent Flyer Pets May Be No More
December 18th: ๐ Your Special Offer is Here!