Howdy, I’m Miles Goscha and this is Echolocations, a newsletter about the joys and pains of travel for people who fall on the spectrum of neurodivergence. It is called Echolocations because its goal is to capture the unique ways we navigate through the world with an accessible library of stories, guides and ideas.
The plan is simple:
Find what makes traveling as a neurodivergent person challenging, effortless, particular, prickly and euphoric.
Write about those things in ways that resonate with everyone.
Try to publish weekly.
If it is to be true to its readership, this newsletter must, as its guiding principle, maintain openness to what are inevitably deeply personal answers to the question of what, exactly, it means to be neurodivergent. My hope is that these pages will flourish with such answers, and, if not now, then before long you will see a joyful reflection of yourself here, smiling back from between the lines.
For this to happen, I see us producing some essential stories, including:
Ones that make you feel seen
Ones that champion your peculiarities
Ones that challenge your perspectives
Ones that address your interests
And, crucially, ones that get you where you want to go
I also see us, over time, constructing a broadly useful platform that:
Gathers contributors who represent a wide breadth of the neurodivergent experience
Forges transparent partnerships to bring you products and offers you actually want
Effectively advocates for a more accessible and inclusive global travel infrastructure
Done right, Echolocations should be equal parts compelling and useful. A destination for everyone who feels overlooked by mainstream travel media.
Why Subscribe to Echolocations?
Free subscribers get my semi-regular dispatch—aka Echolocation—which contains casual travel notes, on-the-spot recommendations, interviews with fellow ND adventurers and my personal travel stories. Oh, and access to the group chat!
Paid subscribers1 get the stuff that really puts neurodivergent travel front-and-center: searching conversations about interfacing with people, places and cultures around the world, actionable travel guides for becoming a more confident and prepared global explorer, and expertly-tailored lists of things to do that will help you experience your destinations in the ways you actually want. You also get to leave comments on posts (to which I will try to always respond) and browse the archive.
Who’s running this thing?
Hi again! I’m Miles Goscha, an American visual artist and writer who’s from Kansas, lives in Brooklyn and travels everywhere. My favorite big city destinations are currently Tokyo, Japan and Copenhagen, Denmark. Autism runs in my family, and I recently began my journey toward formal adult (I am thirty years old) diagnosis.
How do I contact you?
If you’re a paid subscriber, you can leave comments on posts. Otherwise, the chat should be open to everyone and I think there’s a way to send private messages here somewhere. You can also DM me on X. Your feedback is crucial to the improvement of this newsletter, so please do not hesitate to connect.
🛫 Onward,
Miles
In the interest of full transparency during these early days, please subscribe with the understanding that paid and free perks are subject to change as Echolocations finds its footing.
