Field Notes, City Guides and Practical Travel Reads
Care here is a working habit, not a slogan. Every practical detail, walking distance, opening hour, and wrong turn that reaches this magazine has been checked against what a contributor actually saw, and it gets corrected in the open when a route shifts or a stall closes for good.
Care starts with a working channel. If a route has changed, a stall has closed, or a detail in a piece no longer holds up on the ground, write to us and it goes back into the record rather than sitting in a drawer. The same address handles reader notes, corrections, and questions about the Spanish edition.
Asentamiento 25 de Mayo, Municipio de San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Y4616XAQ, Argentina
Readers in the United States who plan in English and pass drafts to family in the Dominican Republic use these channels most often. Corrections are logged the same way as new reporting: what changed, where it was seen, and when. That is how the parallel Spanish edition stays aligned with the English pieces instead of drifting apart.
Care, on this page, is not a promise about tone. It is a working rule about detail. Every practical detail, walking distance and opening hour that reaches you has been filed by a contributor and then read again before it goes out. When something turns out to be wrong, the note gets corrected in place instead of disappearing.
A metro transit detail, a plate of tacos, a walk between two platforms: each figure in a dispatch comes from someone who recorded it or walked it. If a detail changes or a route changes, we treat the old number as outdated rather than roughly true.
The people we write about live where readers are passing through. They are neighbors, not backdrop. That means quoting them as they spoke, keeping the context they gave us, and not turning a short exchange at a counter into a portrait they never agreed to.
A route that fell apart on a weekday afternoon is useful information. We keep the wrong turn, the closed stall and the slower return train in the text, because a plan that only works on a good day is not a plan you can use.
The Spanish edition runs the same pieces with added local notes. It is not a lighter version and it is not a summary. Corrections land in both, so a reader forwarding a draft to family in the Dominican Republic is sending the same checked text.
There is no review board behind these notes and no certification attached to them. Verification here means a second read by an editor, a check against what the contributor filed, and a correction when a reader tells us a detail has gone stale. If you spot something that no longer holds, write to info@davidonthego.com and it will be looked at.
Care on this page is mostly about handling detail honestly. Below are the answers we give most often, written plainly and without the legal padding.
Contributors record what they actually encountered, how far they actually walked, and when a place was actually open. Those numbers get compared against the contributor's own notes and, where possible, against a second visit or a local confirmation before a piece runs. When something cannot be confirmed, we say so in the text instead of rounding it into a cleaner figure.
The note gets updated rather than quietly dropped. A closed counter, a rerouted bus, or a new entrance is part of the record, and readers who planned around an older version should be able to see what shifted and when.
Interviews are conversations with neighbors, not scenery. People who live where readers are passing through get to see how they are quoted, and we do not use a passing encounter to explain an entire neighborhood. If someone asks not to be named, that request holds.
Yes. The Spanish edition carries the same pieces plus local notes, and the same checks apply to both versions. Readers in the United States who plan in English and share drafts with family in the Dominican Republic should be able to forward either version without wondering which one is more current.
Write to info@davidonthego.com or call +54 9 11 1251 1044. Corrections are welcome and get logged the same way reported details do.
Still deciding what to send? The resources page collects the reading that shapes how we report, and the contact page is where pitches and corrections land.