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A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboard the Maya Train in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I just took four rides on Mexico\u2019s new Tren Maya, traveling through three states and spending the night in four cities. The train has gotten more bad press than a misbehaving celebrity, most of it well-deserved, but the operation started to get its act together this month and my trips were mostly smooth\u2014as was the ride itself on the brand new tracks. It\u2019s a joy to get around Mexico by rail, even though the stations are way outside the cities and require a shuttle bus ride to the center. See the revamped booking site finally in English here<\/a>, though sections beyond Playa del Carmen won\u2019t be open for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Worst U.S. Airlines for Tall People<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You probably could have guessed this already, but if you\u2019re more than six feet tall (183 cms), you\u2019re going to have a tough time getting comfortable on a Spirit or Frontier flight in the USA. Their average seat pitch is just 28 inches according to this study<\/a>. It might be worth paying a bit more to fly on JetBlue, the highest at 32.3 inches or Southwest, at 31.8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White Noise Machine With Low Frequencies<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re staying in noisy urban places and need white noise to block it all out so you can sleep, Austin Kleon recommends the Douni sound machine<\/a> in his fun newsletter<\/a> because, \u201cIt has has a lot of low end and a fan setting that masks engine noise pretty well.\u201d Who is Austin? Two of my most-recommended books for creatives are his entertaining classics Show Your Work<\/a><\/em> and Steal Like an Artist<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Virtual Ride in an Elevator to Space<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the coolest web pages I’ve seen in a long time is this “space elevator” one on Neal.fun<\/a>. It takes you up in a hypothetical transport system higher and higher until you get into space, showing what creatures, vehicles, and atmospheric elements are or have been at that altitude, with explanations like this: “Most meteors burn up in the mesosphere. It’s estimated that over 48 tons of meteors hit the atmosphere every day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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