This issue of our newsletter brought to you by Thrifty Traveler Premium Hello Reader, 🛫 Got Any Questions about our Scandinavia Tour?What’s so special about Scandinavia? Join us for a fun live session to discuss Travel Past 50’s tour to Sweden and Norway with optional extension to Copenhagen.
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📖 What We're ReadingTom has just started The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by his favorite historian, Erik Larson. So far, a pretty chilling tale of how extremists destroyed the United States. Kris is about a 100 pages into Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, the story of an American agent, 'Sadie Smith,' infiltrating a subversive group in present-day France. For our previous book recommendations, check out this list. ❝Travel Quote of the Week❞I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ― Robert Louis Stevenson Happy travels, Kris and Tom
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