Timed walking routes
Each route lists the distance on foot, the transit transit detail, and the buffer you need to clear security again. You can decide before you leave the terminal whether the walk fits.
Field Notes, City Guides and Practical Travel Reads
Beyond the archive, David On The Go files what a traveler actually needs before landing: transit tips, packing notes, walking routes, and food stalls worth the detour. Everything is sorted by rhythm of trip rather than by country, so a four-hour layover, a long weekend, a slow month, and a stretch of working from somewhere else each get their own kind of coverage. Contributors report real practical details, walking distances, and opening hours, and interviews with residents add the local context a guidebook tends to skip. Readers in the United States plan in English and share drafts with family in the Dominican Republic, while a Spanish edition carries the same pieces plus local notes.
Reading about a place is one thing. Standing at a metro entrance with two hours before your next train is another. The work we publish is built for the second situation, where a wrong turn practical details you a connection and a good tip saves the afternoon.
Everything below is filed by contributors who walked the route, used the transit connection, and wrote down what went wrong. If you want to send a pitch of your own, the details are on the contact page.
Each route lists the distance on foot, the transit transit detail, and the buffer you need to clear security again. You can decide before you leave the terminal whether the walk fits.
A long weekend and a slow month need different bags. The lists cover fabrics, laundry by hand, and the items that are hard to replace once you land.
Which platform is a longer walk than it looks, which return train runs slower than the outbound one, and where the weekday crowd will slow you down.
Contributors return to the same counter more than once, so you get portion sizes, pricing, and the hours when a stall is a local habit rather than a stop for visitors.
Residents describe the neighborhood on their own terms, which is the context a guidebook tends to skip. Useful when you are deciding where to spend an evening.
The Spanish edition carries the same pieces plus local notes, so readers planning in English can share a draft with family in the Dominican Republic without losing the details.
The archive is organized by how much time you actually have, not by continent. Pick the format that matches the trip you are planning, then follow the pieces that fit it.
Short connections where leaving the airport is still worth it. Each piece tracks walking distances, transit details, and the buffer you need to clear security again.
Two to four days in one neighborhood, walked on foot. We file the opening hours, the market counters, and the corners worth returning to twice.
For trips measured in weeks, packing logic changes. Fewer outfits, more room for the things that are hard to replace once you land.
Every format runs in English and in a Spanish edition that carries the same pieces plus local notes. If you file from the road, send a 200-word outline and two links to published clips through the contact page.
A few definitions, so nobody reads more into a page than what is actually there. David On The Go publishes reported travel writing. It is not a booking platform, a guided tour operator, or a live concierge for people mid-journey.
Contributors file real practical details, walking distances, and opening hours as they found them. transit details change, a stall closes for a family week, a metro entrance gets fenced off. Treat every figure as a starting point you confirm on the ground, not a guarantee for the day you land.
Pieces are grouped by how much time you have: a quick layover, a long weekend, a slow month, a stretch of working from somewhere else. That structure is editorial, not a claim that one rhythm suits every city or that a route fits a schedule we have never walked.
The Spanish edition carries the same reporting plus local notes. It is not a separate magazine with its own commissions, and the local notes are additions to a piece, not a substitute for the English version. Readers in the United States who plan in English and share drafts with family in the Dominican Republic are reading the same material.
Talking to people who live where readers are passing through adds what a guidebook tends to miss. It does not mean the magazine vouches for a business, a neighborhood, or a route as safe, cheap, or open at the hour you arrive.
A 200-word outline and two links to published clips is what the magazine asks for. Sending them starts a review, nothing more. There is no account to create, no submission portal, and no promised place in a future issue.
When a route goes wrong, the piece says so: the crowd that swallowed an afternoon, the platform change that ate the buffer, the counter that was better on a Tuesday. Those notes are part of the reporting, not an admission that the plan was worthless.
Questions about a specific piece, a correction, or a pitch can go to info@davidonthego.com. Corrections are welcome and are handled the same way as any other note.