Obvious travel advice, including “Mindset matters more than where you go”, and “Don’t confuse scarcity with value. A really good afternoon in the park (a really good one) is maybe about as good as it gets.”

I recently purchased what may be my 50th Lonely Planet guide book for an upcoming Asia trip. It gave me pause and a brief web search led me to ✈️ How Lonely Planet Founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler Revolutionized the Way We Travel.  An interesting profile of Lonely Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler, and how they and LP revolutionized travel. “They hadn’t set out to write a guidebook, but soon after they made it to Sydney, they found there was a huge interest in the notes and anecdotes they’d gathered along their route. Others wanted to follow in their footsteps. Demand was so great that the young Wheelers, who were still trying to earn money to buy their flights home to England, started to wonder if they could find a way to charge people for the information they were sharing. Tony suggested they write a guidebook, but could they find a publisher? They decided they didn’t need one; they’d publish themselves. And thus a new travel empire was born.

I’ve been using perfectly adequate knock-off versions of the Moleskine notebook to help organize my travel info for decades, but I was still intrigued by this article about the trendy brand. 📔 Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era. “Do you know there’s a section of our customer base that buys a fresh Moleskine every time they come into a store?” asked a buyer at Barnes & Noble’s Fifth Avenue head office in NYC. “We have no idea what they do with them.”

This BBC article features a local Philadelphia museum controversy and much more. 💀 The sinister history behind some of the world’s first tourist sites. As with true crime podcasts, many people are fascinated by relics. “Still,” writes Tony Perrottet, “the question lingers: can we learn from human remains, or are we merely indulging a morbid curiosity, with museums profiting from the work of tomb-raiders and body-traffickers? BBC Travel