Portugal’s Back, Baby. Here’s How to Plan a Trip ASAP ✈️

• #toc_item_0 • [What Are You Doing? Why Aren’t You in Portugal Right Now?](#toc_item_1) • [What are you waiting for?](#toc_item_2) • [The Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist Everyone’s Talking About](#toc_item_3) • [Oh my pappy](#toc_item_4) • [A Guide to Phoenix’s ‘Gayborhood’ From the Original Miss Gay Melrose America](#toc_item_5) • [Pride all the time](#toc_item_6) • [You Could Win $100,000 to Travel the World](#toc_item_7) • [Travel the world](#toc_item_8) • [Messenger Bags, Tents & Satchels, NOW ON SALE](#toc_item_9) • [Hit the trails](#toc_item_10) • [Close Out the Day with the Biggest Business Stories From our Friends at Axios](#toc_item_11) • [Subscribe for free](#toc_item_12) *Header 728x90 [] I just rode on a train for the first time in what feels like years. It feels like years because it has been years. It was good to be back, this time with a mask, but I made the mistake of scrambling so quickly to find a seat that I sat in the one seat in the car with no window. It was just a wall. Imagine, the joy of train travel—with nothing but a wall to look at. So, I stared at the wall and pretended that it was a rapidly changing coastline. Just kidding, I didn’t stare at the wall. I stared at my book, trying to make it less boring, waiting for the page that would have everything I needed on it… but it never came. I must write that page myself, dear reader, and maybe find a new book, or wait ‘til my attention span has improved. Today’s newsletter is packed to the gills with the kinds of stories that you don’t get every day. Topical, readable, scintillating. We have an article about traveling to Portugal, one about the “Great Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist” (the best name for a bourbon heist I’ve ever heard), a “gayborhood” in Phoenix, a $100,000 prize to travel around the world, and finally, an outdoor gear sale to end all outdoor gear sales. I’m off to enjoy nature and explore the possibilities of Wednesday. Maybe I’ll get swept up in an adventure of some kind. Maybe I’ll listen to my audiobook about “rewiring your anxious brain.” Maybe I’ll get lost in a daydream about the “Great Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist.” So many possibilities, so little time! Lovingly yours, -[Ned Riseley, Newsletter Contributor]( [ [( travel [] [What Are You Doing? Why Aren’t You in Portugal Right Now?]( You heard me correctly. Portugal is open for business and ready to take in weary wanderers. See all the tips for what you need to know to visit Portugal, and all the places to check out when you go. From cliffs to vineyards to historic monuments to beautiful beaches. [] [What are you waiting for?]( [( [( food & drink [] [The Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist Everyone’s Talking About]( There is a new Netflix true crime doc all about the Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist of 2013, in which over 200 bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon went missing. Read up on what to expect from the series, so that at your next dinner party, you can wait for a quiet moment, then yell, “Do you all know the story of the Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Heist of 2013?” [] [Oh my pappy]( [( [( news [] [A Guide to Phoenix’s ‘Gayborhood’ From the Original Miss Gay Melrose America]( Melrose Place is a soap opera from the ‘90s, but that has nothing to do with this article, which is about Melrose, a neighborhood in Phoenix that’s known for being a gay wonderland, full of bars, a great drag scene, and more. Here, Thrillist talks to drag superstar and first winner of Miss Gay Melrose America, Piper M’Shay, about the best spots and what she loves about the queer scene in Phoenix. [] [Pride all the time]( [( *Sponsored Ads List [( news [] [You Could Win $100,000 to Travel the World]( If you attend a “virtual sensory journey through Trafalgar (a travel tour company), you can be in the running to win $10,000 worth of travel EVERY YEAR for the NEXT TEN YEARS! 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