Travel Gear Sales/Escaping the USA/World’s Best Airlines
Nomadico issue #112
A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of A Better Life for Half the Price and The World’s Cheapest Destinations. See past editions here, where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.
A Great Week to Buy Travel Gear
If you are an American who decides to shop from an air-conditioned room instead of grilling burgers and hot dogs outside this steamy 4th of July, you’ll find lots of great sales on travel gear and clothing. Even online retailers that seldom run a sale are having one, like Zappos and REI, and you’ll find some big discounts at Amazon, including 58% off a Kindle Fire tablet, 35% off a lot of camping equipment, and discounted summer clothing.
Your USA Escape Manual
There’s been a huge spike in Google searches this week on moving out of the USA, so here’s a reminder that I wrote the book on how to do this—and how to cut your expenses in half at the same time. You can get the 2nd edition of A Better Life for Half the Price in paperback, audiobook, or e-book form. The latter option has some community and consulting options too if interested.
Religious Festivals More Dangerous Than Music Festivals
You probably won’t see that headline in the media, but it has certainly been true in 2024. As far as I can tell from my research, there have been 3 music festival deaths this year (1 drowning, 2 hit pedestrians), but 1,421 people died at just two religious festivals: the Haj in Mecca and a Hindu festival in Uttar Pradesh, India. (Mostly extreme heat in the former, a stampede through a too-small exit in the latter.)
World’s Best Airlines
Skytraxx released its annual survey results of the world’s best airlines and as you’d probably expect, there weren’t a lot of U.S. airline execs showing up for the awards ceremony. The top 5 were Qatar, Singapore, Emirates, ANA, and Cathay Pacific. The North American showings in the top 50 were Delta at #21, Air Canada at #29, and United at #42. Asian and Middle Eastern airlines dominated nearly every category, including budget airlines: AirAsia was on top for the 15th year in a row. Budget carrier Allegiant showed up at #6 in the “Most Improved” category.
07/11/24
