# Nomadic Spirit > Nomadic Spirit is a weekly newsletter for intentional travelers, as interested in the why as the where. Free, once a week, from Paul M. Rand. This file provides information about Nomadic Spirit to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [Travel Like a Guest](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/travel-like-a-guest): What changes when you stop traveling as a customer. - [The Trip Where You Show Up To Work.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-trip-where-you-show-up-to-work): Volunteer travel gets you past the version of a country that is arranged for visitors. - [Tell us what you think, in four minutes](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/tell-us-what-you-think-in-four-minutes) - [On Your Next Trip, Come Home and Tell Everyone What it Smelled Like.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/on-your-next-trip-come-home-and-tell-everyone-what-it-smelled-like): If you want to see a place, you have to smell and hear it. - [Europe Is Looking for "Quality Tourists." Stay Longer or Pay up.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/europe-is-looking-for-quality-tourists-stay-longer-or-pay-up) - [Say Yes To The Trip You Were Going to Pass On](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/say-yes-to-the-trip-you-were-going-to-pass-on) - [You're Not Staying Long Enough](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/you-re-not-staying-long-enough): The week three effect is real. You just have to stay for it. - [Going Solo, By Choice](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/going-solo-by-choice): More and more travelers with full lives and every option are choosing to go alone. - [The Catch in the $50,000 Vacation.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-catch-in-the-50-000-vacation): The wealthiest travelers are spending fortunes to find room to breathe. What they’re really after costs far less. - [Sit Behind The Resolute Desk This Summer.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/sit-behind-the-resolute-desk-this-summer): A presidential library is worth a summer drive, and the Obama Center opens June 19. What these places are for, and how they’ve changed - [Make Your Next Trip Yours. Not Everyone's.](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/make-your-next-trip-yours-not-everyone-s): Left to its defaults, AI plans the same trip for everyone. The questions you ask turn it into yours. - [The Cookie-Cutter Trip AI Quietly Sold You](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-cookie-cutter-trip-ai-quietly-sold-you): It looks personalized. It's not. Here is the lens AI sees travel through, and how to push back. - [The Surprising Reason the People Building AI Want You to Travel](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-surprising-reason-the-people-building-ai-want-you-to-travel): Their argument is for the humanities. Travel is the humanities in practice. - [The Joy of Talking to Strangers When We Travel](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-joy-of-talking-to-strangers-when-we-travel) - [The Greatest Deal in American Travel](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-greatest-deal-in-american-travel): Eighty Dollars. One time. For life. - [Look for the Discomfort](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/look-for-the-discomfort): The trips that asked something of you stay with you - [We Travel for the Table](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/we-travel-for-the-table): On food as the point of the trip. - [The Case for Going Back](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-case-for-going-back): Why the best trips are often the ones you repeat - [Go While It's Good](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/go-while-it-s-good): The trip you’re saving is a bet on a future self you haven’t consulted. - [Go Where You’re Wanted](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/go-where-you-re-wanted): Some places are still glad you came. - [Are We All Ugly Americans Now?](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/are-we-all-ugly-americans-now): You didn't do anything wrong. Go anyway. - [The Places That Still Knew Her](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/the-places-that-still-knew-her): A father's response to Alzheimer's was to start traveling. Not to new places. To the ones that mattered. - [Welcome to Nomadic Spirit](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/new-post) - [Welcome to Nomadic Spirit](https://mynomadicspirit.com/p/what-the-travel-industry-gets-wrong-about-its-best-customers) ## Pages - [](https://mynomadicspirit.com/) - [about](https://mynomadicspirit.com/about) - [archive](https://mynomadicspirit.com/archive) - [ideas](https://mynomadicspirit.com/ideas) - [subscribe](https://mynomadicspirit.com/subscribe) - [thank-you-for-subscribing](https://mynomadicspirit.com/thank-you-for-subscribing) - [the-intentional-traveler-s-guide-to-ai](https://mynomadicspirit.com/the-intentional-traveler-s-guide-to-ai) - [the-intentional-traveler-s-guide-to-ai-page](https://mynomadicspirit.com/the-intentional-traveler-s-guide-to-ai-page) - [where-to-next](https://mynomadicspirit.com/where-to-next) ## Authors - [Ed Brill](https://mynomadicspirit.com/authors/ed-brill) - [Paul Rand](https://mynomadicspirit.com/authors/paul-rand) ## Categories - [Japan](https://mynomadicspirit.com/t/Japan) - [A Chosen Place](https://mynomadicspirit.com/t/A Chosen Place)