Get out a sheet of paper and write down all your set expenses: rent/mortgage, car payments, cable/streaming bill, cell phone, insurance, school payments, etc. Tally them up. Then write down all your discretionary spending. This is what you spend on food, movie nights, drinks, shopping, that daily coffee from Starbucks, your daily midday snack, and other similar things. If you don’t know what you spend money on, go track your expenses for a two-week period, see what you spend, and come back. Add that all up. What did you get? Probably a large sum of money. And I bet there…

Drinking highballs and talking about life, creation, and food with Roads & Kingdoms co-founder Matt Goulding. A special revival episode of The Trip Podcast. Roads & Kingdoms co-founders Nathan Thornburgh and Matt Goulding return to the mic for a revival episode of The Trip Podcast to discuss Omnivore, the wantonly gorgeous eight-episode Apple TV+ series Goulding created with Noma founder René Redzepi, on the eve of its world premiere. Each episode focuses on a single ingredient, beginning with chili and bringing readers from Redzepi’s Macedonian childhood to Bangkok, where the great chef Prin Polsuk swims in a field of dried red…

Posted by Riley Wilson on Monday, September 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment  The flowers are fresh, the coffee is hot and the banter is rolling. At Barrel One Sydney, a coffee-roaster-cum-cafe, that’s about all it takes. Daniel Agapiou had been in the coffee game for a while before he decided to open his own cafe, in September 2017. The space ”“ parked in Brookvale, in the industrial northern beaches pocket of Sydney ”“ functions (and has for three years) as the dispatch centre for the roastery; the scales, bags, and barrels of beans strewn throughout are proof of that. Agapiou didn’t…

Skip the gas station junk and pack snacks that are tasty, satisfying, and won’t leave you feeling blah halfway through your drive. These healthy-ish road trip snacks will keep you energized and happy, no matter how long the road ahead! Our road trip snacks bin organized and ready to go! After living on the road for over two years and having traveled thousands of miles, we’ve put a lot of thought into what makes good road trip snacks. From hangry meltdowns to energy slumps, we’ve learned that snacks are truly a road trip essential—and we never hit the road without…

Finding the best travel deals is a matter of timing. A lot of people think travel is just expensive, but in reality, there are incredible deals happening all the time. They often don’t last too long, and you have to act quickly. That can sometimes be a problem when a deal requires jumping on a plane tomorrow (how many people can do that?). Fortunately, most deals are for months in the future, giving you ample time to plan your schedule. Often I will book a flight and then figure out my plans. Since you can usually cancel a flight within…

Watching the recent events in Afghanistan unfold in the headlines, I’ve been thinking about how important it is to humanize far-away tragic events — and the unique ability of artists to do so.  Picasso’s monumental painting “Guernica” — more than 25 feet wide — is a powerful example of this. It’s not only a piece of art but a piece of history, capturing the horror of modern war in a modern style.  The painting (which has been recreated, in this photograph, on a wall in the Basque market town of Guernica itself) depicts a specific event. On April 26, 1937, Guernica was the target of the world’s first saturation aerial-bombing raid on civilians. Spain was in the midst of the…

Documentary photographer Cengiz Yar discusses his nine-year project documenting Mosul and the so-called war on terror’s long-term effect on the northern Iraqi city This summer marked a decade since the fall of Mosul, when ISIS insurgents captured the city from Iraqi forces. What followed were years of brutal occupation, of war and destruction, as this ancient center of civilization became a battleground in the so-called global war on terror. The story of the city and its inhabitants during this fraught period, and of the era of reconstruction that followed, is the subject of This Alabaster Grave, a new book project…

This Spicy Peppered Beef Jerky recipe is the perfect combination of spicy, salty, and sweet. It’s all about the freshly ground peppercorns, which level up the flavors with peppery heat along with a subtle fruity note. Brown sugar, garlic, and smoked paprika—plus soy and Worcestershire sauces—seal the deal! It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of beef jerky! It’s protein-packed, portable, and really just the perfect snack all around. We’ve shared recipes for both this classic simple jerky recipe and the sweeter teriyaki beef jerky, but for this pepper jerky recipe, we wanted to crank up the heat and make…