🎥 This Week's Video

We Went to Stockholm (And It Wasn't What We Expected)

We spent a few days eating our way through Stockholm: Swedish meatballs, fresh-fried herring from a little fish cart in Old Town, a proper Swedish hot dog, and a very committed fika. Then we walked into the Vasa Museum and weren't prepared for how massive it is. It's a warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, sat at the bottom of the harbor for 333 years, and now sits almost completely intact.

​Watch us eat our way through Stockholm →​

👀 What Caught Our Eye

Tailwind Endurance Fuel

We've been drinking Tailwind on our long training runs. It's a powder you stir into your water, and one scoop gives you carbs and electrolytes together, so you're fueling and replacing salt without a pocket full of gels. If you're training for a long race, or just spending a long day outside, it's worth trying.

​Get Tailwind →​

🚴 RAGBRAI 2027: 12 spots left!

Thirteen of you have already put down a deposit to ride across Iowa with us next July. You’re coming from Maine, Seattle, Reno, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon, Florida and right there in Iowa.

That leaves 12 spots. A $100 deposit holds yours, and the balance isn’t due until June. The price is $295 right now. When RAGBRAI announces the route in late January, it goes up to $349.

Everyone who rides with us gets a Matador duffel packed with Pelotan sunscreen and MoonPies for the road...(plus a lot more we just can't announce it yet:) No bike? Litespeed is loaning them out.

RAGBRAI registration opens November 15, and we’ll walk every rider through it that day.

Grab one of the last 12 spots

​Grab your spot at chrisandsara.com/ragbrai →​

📍 Worth Sharing

A few things we bookmarked this week:

• ​A flight in Japan was cancelled after a live snake turned up on board We've checked under our seats for a lot of things. Never that.
• ​TSA's Halloween rules: the jack-o'-lantern can ride in your carry-on, the broom may need checking Somewhere a witch is arguing about a gate-check tag.
• ​A Singapore Airlines flight turned around four hours out over the Pacific because of one unruly passenger On October 14, the flight left San Francisco for Singapore. About four hours in, a passenger became so unruly that the crew turned the plane around and flew all the way back to SFO, where authorities came on board and took him off. That’s almost eight hours in the air to end up right where they started. The impressive part is that Singapore Airlines found a fresh crew and had the same plane back in the air less than three hours later. By the time everyone landed in Singapore, they’d spent more than a full day on that airplane. We’ll never complain about a two-hour delay again.
• ​Chiricahua in southeast Arizona is now America's newest national park It's a whole forest of rock spires, and we'd like to see it before the new sign brings the crowds.
• ​TSA quietly pulled its new gate pass for non-flyers back to just 13 airports It had opened to about 300 airports only two weeks earlier. Holiday airport pickups go back to the curb.
• ​Starting Nov 1, Japan stops taking the tax off at the register Visitors now pay full price and claim the tax back at the airport. If Japan is on your list, give yourself extra time on the way out.

✈️ Flights We'd Text to Friends

A few that caught our eye this week.

​Boston → Tokyo for $770 – 34% off (normally $1,170+).​

Tokyo for under $800 from the East Coast doesn't come around often.

​Chicago → Catania, Sicily for $630 – 46% off (normally $1,185+).​

On Turkish Airlines through Istanbul, November and January through March. Sicily without the summer crowds.

​Nashville → San Juan for $232 – 65% off (normally $680+).​

On United, November and December. No passport needed.

​Atlanta → Dallas for $84 – 74% off (normally $330+).​

Nonstop on Southwest, December and January. Going says this one could be gone in less than 24 hours.

​Dallas → Kona, Hawaii for $372 – 55% off (normally $845+).​

On United with one stop, in January. Hawaii for less than most flights home for the holidays.

​Los Angeles → Sydney for $832 – 38% off (normally $1,355+).​

Nonstop on the way out with Qantas and Fiji Airways, November and December. Australia for under $850 round trip.

We find all of these through Going. It's worth setting up alerts for your home airport. Most of these deals won't last long, so if one catches your eye, don't sit on it.

Is there a city you wish we would feature for flights? Email us back and we'll put it in the next email.

💬 From the Replies

Last week we asked where you'd want to go if we could send you anywhere.

Kayleigh knew right away:

"It's got to be a camper van holiday across scotlands nc500 it's been a dream for years for us 3 ❤️"

Rick on the boat trip winner:

"For a brief moment I wished my name was Greg B, 🤣😂. Maybe next time!"

Diane spent last week in our hometown:

"Just finishing up an enjoyable week in your fair city. We're here for the bluegrass convention, but also experienced the Coker car museum and Raccoon Mountain Caverns - even stretched ourselves to do the Wild Cave crawl. Unfortunately didn't get to try any of your food recommendations. Maybe next year."

The Wild Cave crawl is no small thing, Diane. Come back for the food next year.

Carrie just joined us and wrote in from Tucson after watching the video of how we met:

"Love your initial video, wish I had not listened to people in my earlier life. My current self would have done what I wanted."

And Cindy is following along from Mississippi:

"Great Video……excited to follow you from Mississippi."

Keep them coming. We read every one.