Substacks recommended by Caravanserai with Samantha Childress

Recommended by Caravanserai with Samantha Childress

Putting the serendipity back in travel, one offline trip at a time

How an American Africa expert deals with moving to Geneva and becoming a stay-at-home dad. Featuring lots of parenting, lots of travel, and a little bit of whining.

Dan is everything you want in a writer: observant, witty, and living a unique experience as an expat and a stay-at-home dad. His newsletter is a great read for anyone interested in life abroad!

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Michael Takes Too Many Pictures

By Michael Jensen

A travel writer and amateur photographer taking you on my nomadic journey around the world one picture at a time.

[B]OLD AGE with Debbie Weil

Sharing what it's really like to get old, from the blessings to the bullshit.

Beautiful Things: Letters from Abroad

By jodi {fiftybeautifulthings}

Letter writer. Traveler. Lover of beautiful things.

Born Without Borders

By Nolan Yuma

Building bridges across divides.

Hidden Japan

By Leon

Understand the Japanese Psyche with a local English speaker's perspective

Leon's deep dives into the weird and wonderful minutiae of life in Japan are as fun as they are illuminating. If you're interested in learning about world cultures from an outsider's perspective, Hidden Japan is for you!

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In Hand

By Meghan McEwen

The intersecting worlds of travel, craft and design.

Letters from a Muslim Woman

By Noha Beshir

Dispatches from one woman's life as a Western Muslim told through the lens of mental health, faith, and the multi-generational immigrant experience.

Practice Space

By Andrei Atanasov

A blog, a newsletter, an ongoing collection of essays and stories. Most of what I write and finish ends up here.

Andrei's personal essays and reflections are highly relatable and beautifully expressed. If you like short memoir, Practice Space is the space for you!

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Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

By Jeannine

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it might save yours.

From The Future

By Edward Rooster

Imagining the Future through the Past, by writing Lyrical Historical Essays and Science Fiction Novels

Treadmill

By Ashwin Wadekar

Reflections on startups, venture capital, and navigating a career when you feel like you're on a treadmill

Cosmographia

By M. E. Rothwell

Creating a map of the world and our place in it.

Cosmographia is a fascinating tour of the globe through history, literature, art, cartography, and the personal experiences of M. E. Rothwell. Each edition holds some little-known treasure--you will learn and be delighted along the way!

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Inner Workings

By Rachel Katz

Literary essays, published occasionally. On work culture, mothering, mysterious women’s diseases, and redefining success. Striving to deliver little nuggets of beauty and sparks of insight.

I won't keep you

By Trilety Wade

a newsletter that is (usually) no more than 500 words

Travel: NE Where

By Narina Exelby

For – and often about – women who travel, and other curious people.

Sparks from Culture by David Roberts

By david roberts

Weekly personal essays about wealth, class, and capitalism from someone with generational wealth, writing with transparency

David's writing about social class and generational wealth--topics few are willing to shine a light on--is extremely insightful. But this is more than a newsletter; when you subscribe to Sparks from Culture, you're joining a thoughtful, engaged community that will enrich your life.

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Beloved Gateway

By Lisa Marie

Honoring the transformational gateways of death and grief, womanhood, and ancestral reverence.

A radically honest exploration of life, death, grief, and the human experience. Lisa's writing manages to feel magical and grounding all at once. I read five posts in a single morning and cried through all of them.

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Tom Fish Is Away

A travel diary consisting mostly of awkward urinal encounters and disappointing celebrity sightings.

If you want hackneyed travel tips and hotel reviews, look elsewhere. Tom is not your average travel writer—he digs deep to find what’s uniquely interesting about a place. His funny, thoughtful observations are sure to delight!

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Gillian Knows Best

By Gillian Longworth McGuire

Finding terrific places to eat, stay & shop in Italy’s best known destinations.

Chris Arnade Walks the World

Dispatches and photos from walks around the world

CAFÉ ANNE

By Anne Kadet

It's a wonderful world—meet the inhabitants!

Delightfully weird, life-affirming encounters with New York and its inhabitants.

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Brent and Michael Are Going Places

By Brent and Michael are Going Places

The adventures, insights, and travel tips of a gay nomad couple exploring the world. A "Substack Featured" Newsletter! Also seen on CBS Sunday Morning and CNN.com.

The Camont Journals with Kate Hill

By Kate Hill in France

The Camont Journals, published weekly, are based on a lifetime of French inspiration from the kitchen, garden, farms, and markets of Gascony and written at the Relais de Camont, my home and creative writer’s residency in Southwest France.

Time Travel Kitchen

By Jolene Handy

Food, History, Chicago, New York and Beyond.

ingredient by Rachel Phipps

By Rachel Phipps (ingredient)

A professional recipe developer's deep dive into a different ingredient each month with exclusive recipes.

Be a Better Traveler

By Rebecca

Be a better informed, better fed, all-around better traveler around the world and at home.