{"id":41151,"date":"2023-04-20T04:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41151"},"modified":"2023-04-18T16:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T23:43:52","slug":"bad-news-bali-best-public-transit-wonder-utensil-for-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/bad-news-bali-best-public-transit-wonder-utensil-for-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad News Bali\/Best Public Transit\/Wonder Utensil for Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Bali\u2019s Downward Spiral<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As more proof that continuous bad press won\u2019t prevent new visitors from seeking out \u201cparadise,\u201d Bali is now as traffic-choked, polluted, and jammed with foreigners as it was before the pandemic gave the island a breather.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/healthcare-and-fitness\/bali-is-overrun-by-influencers-locals-are-fighting-back-20230320-p5ctm3\">This scathing article<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Financial Review<\/em>&nbsp;takes direct aim at the new flood of wellness gurus, life coaches, and crypto traders, including lots of escaping Russians, who are remaking the island in their own image. (Possible paywall, do a search in the title to read.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Best USA Work-From-Home States<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other side of the ocean, those who are working remotely but in the USA might want to consider New Hampshire or Connecticut. According to a new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-states-for-working-from-home\/72801\">Wallethub data dive<\/a>, the former has \u201cthe highest share of households with a broadband internet subscription, 81%, which is 1.5 times higher than in Mississippi, the state with the lowest.\u201d Connecticut has \u201cthe highest share of households with access to broadband speeds over 25 Mbps.\u201d Washington D.C., sort of a city-state, has the highest percentage of at-home workers, at 12.3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Cities With the Best Public Transit<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I noted last week what a dream city Sofia was for public transportation. On the heels of that,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/travel\/best-public-transport-in-the-world\">a recent survey from&nbsp;<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/travel\/best-public-transport-in-the-world\">TimeOut<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;got feedback from 20,000+ city dwellers about how they rate their public transit systems. At the very top was Berlin, with a 175-station subway system to start, followed by Prague, Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. Numbers 6 through 9 were all in Asia. The North American cities that have a comprehensive system weren\u2019t left out: New York, Montreal, and Chicago made the top 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>One Utensil to Rule Them All<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In an earlier edition I mentioned reusable bamboo travel cutlery you can pack in order to reduce the amount of plastic you use from take-out places. But in sister newsletter Recommendo, Mark F. mentioned an even more compact alternative: a titanium spork. This is the kind of travel gadget you&#8217;re more likely to lose than wear out and even the best ones (from Japan&#8217;s Snow Peak brand) only cost&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/ijRIT0\">$9.95 on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #48<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41152,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions\/41152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}