The adventures, insights, and travel tips of a gay nomad couple exploring the world. A "Substack Featured" Newsletter. Also featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, and CNN.
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Five Travel Luxuries That Are Worth the Extra Cost — and Four That Aren’t!
And if you think I’m being silly to talk about “value” even in luxury travel, you don’t know me very well.
We all know that “budget” travel is spending as little as possible to see the world — and that “luxury” travel is spending more than...
Turkey is Engaged in a Massive Crackdown Against Gays. The World is Mostly Ignoring It.
For LGBTQ people in the Republic of Türkiye, commonly known as Turkey, things are grim — and rapidly getting grimmer.
Between September 12 and 14, 2026, the authoritarian government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan launched a police oper...
Brent and Michael's Secret Travel Hacks, Part 36!
Find a clean airport bathroom, come home happy, cross borders and security lines faster, get a free satellite connection, use AI to rebook fares, avoid synthetics, and say goodbye at the gate.
Another edition of our unusual travel hacks!
America Has Some Crazy Ideas About “Risk.” How Are Other Countries Different?
For the audio version of this article, read by the author, go here.
Last year, when we were living in San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico, Michael and I took a day-trip with some friends to visit the abandoned mines outside the...
Michael Jensen Photography is Open for Business!
When Brent and I left America to become digital nomads ten years ago, I had no idea that I would discover my passion for photography.
How passionate am I? I currently have 107,890 pictures sitting in my Adobe Lightroom “editing” folder.
A...
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