{"id":42339,"date":"2024-06-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42339"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T20:11:17","slug":"e-bike-tours-best-travel-sun-hats-maya-train-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/e-bike-tours-best-travel-sun-hats-maya-train-report\/","title":{"rendered":"E-bike Tours\/Best Travel Sun Hats\/Maya Train Report"},"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>E-bike Tours on the Rise<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Adventure Travel Trade Association polls tour operators each year to gauge the state of the industry and to spot trends. Turns out that electric bikes (e-bikes) for cycling are surging in popularity, especially in Europe. Culinary\/gastronomy activities have also been consistently increasing over the past few years. On a more somber note, &#8220;Last Chance Travel&#8221; appears in the top motivations for adventure travel this year, again showing an awareness of the effects of climate change. And in case you wondered, the median price of an 8-day adventure tour is $2,813 per person.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adventuretravelnews.com\/atta-releases-2024-annual-state-of-the-adventure-travel-industry-snapshot-report\">See the full study here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Sun Hats Guaranteed for Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I like to recommend companies that produce products made well enough that they can offer a lifetime warranty. Some (not all) of the Tilley Hats have this guarantee sewn in on the label. I just had them honor it with me. It involved a several-step process of sending them photos, getting approved, destroying my hat, then sending those photos with $20 for shipping. After that though, I got a brand new ventilated sun hat of my choice in the mail a week later. I&#8217;m getting older, so I think I&#8217;m more likely to lose this second Airflo one than wear it out in my lifetime.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/CiBH88o\">See the full selection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Riding the Maya Train in Mexico<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A few months ago I boarded the new Mexican Maya Train in Palenque, Chiapas and rode it all the way to near the Cancun airport, overnighting in Campeche, Merida, and Valladolid on the way. I finally got the video footage organized and put my report together, so you can see the full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapestdestinationsblog.com\/2024\/06\/12\/maya-train\/\">Maya Train article here<\/a>&nbsp;(with a video embed) or go straight to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapestdestinationsblog.com\/2024\/06\/12\/maya-train\/\">the YouTube video here<\/a>. The train route is not fully finished yet: eventually it will reach past the current endpoint at Playa del Carmen and finish at Lake Bacalar and Chetumal, near Belize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>A Free Ticket to Bansko Nomad Fest<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran into the nomadic blogger couple that runs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redwhiteadventures.com\/\">RedWhiteAdventures.com<\/a>&nbsp;when I was in Spain a couple of weeks ago after meeting them the past two years at the Bansko Nomad Fest. I&#8217;m not going this year but they are and they&#8217;re giving away a free ticket to the event (Starts June 23) to someone through their IG account.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C76sCm5s-HG\/\">Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #109<\/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\/42339"}],"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=42339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42340,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42339\/revisions\/42340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}