When the House Lets You Fold A couple of weeks ago I sat in a room in Minneapolis and watched the Thrifty Traveler guys record their podcast live, a fellow wanderluster next to me, both of us leaning in like we were taking notes for an exam. I came out of that room in the honeymoon phase. I signed up for the deal alerts. All of them. Miles and cash, domestic and international, the full firehose. I want to publicly apologize to the friends and family who had to listen to me ta

The queue outside Borough Market was fifteen to twenty people deep. We'd been walking most of the morning. We turned around and kept going. The content that sent us to Borough Market in the first place wasn't dishonest. Whoever filmed it captured something real. A market operating at its best, at a moment in time the camera couldn't date. It presented that moment as a place we could visit. The market was still there. The line just wasn't worth it for three people on tired leg