{"id":42233,"date":"2024-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42233"},"modified":"2024-05-28T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:30:53","slug":"michelin-star-taco-stand-expat-mailbox-rentals-real-id-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/michelin-star-taco-stand-expat-mailbox-rentals-real-id-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin-star Taco Stand\/Expat Mailbox Rentals\/REAL ID Deadline"},"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>A Hole in the Wall Earns a Michelin Star<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In a move that made street food fans cheer, the new Michelin Guide to Mexico awarded 2 stars to 2 famous restaurants and 1 star to another 16. Among the latter was a taco stand \u201crestaurant\u201d in Mexico City that\u2019s only 10 feet wide: Taquer\u00eda El Califa de Le\u00f3n.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/taqueria-el-califa-de-leon-mexico-city\/index.html\">Get the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Mailbox Services for Expats and Nomads<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While many people forsake their homeland and sever all ties, most of us want or need to keep ties to the country of our birth, for banking, a driver\u2019s license, voting perhaps. Maintaining a home address while never there can be complicated though, especially for Americans who must still file taxes nationally and in most states. Here\u2019s a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapestdestinationsblog.com\/2024\/05\/22\/rent-a-mailbox-move-abroad\/\">rundown on the mailbox rental options<\/a>&nbsp;(including my favorite, a relative\u2019s place) for doing it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>REAL ID Needed for Americans by May 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to travel domestically in the USA with something in your wallet, your driver\u2019s license will need to be a \u201cREAL ID\u201d with a black star on it to fly. I\u2019m assuming most people on this newsletter list have a passport, which works instead, but your friends and relatives may not.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/real-id\">Get all the info here for your state<\/a>. (Department of Homeland Security.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Combine Points and Cash on Southwest Airlines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently paid for a Southwest flight where I was 2K short of getting it for free with the points I had. After a recent change, I could have combined the two options. The airline is now letting passengers pay a reduced amount for their fare by kicking in some points as well. Get the scoop&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/rapid-rewards\/cash-plus-points\/\">on their site here<\/a>, including the downsides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #106<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"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\/42233"}],"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\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42234,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions\/42234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}