GUSTUX
From the editor's desk
Issue 1 — in preparation by Maggie. Expected this fall.
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A field manual of the year you actually lived.

GUSTUX is a small society of writers. Members keep a digital journal, share city guides with friends, and — one day — print them as books.

Free to start. No application. Your first entry takes a minute.
From the Atlas

A page from this year's atlas

An atlas is a year, walked. Each member keeps one — searchable, photographed, written by hand. This year's belongs to the founder.

Alex Howard · 2025
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City Guides

Written by city

Member-written guides, organized by where you're going — shared with friends by loan link.

Pokhara
1 guide · by the founder
Chiang Mai
1 guide · by the founder
Plovdiv
1 guide · by the founder
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The Library

A working archive

Photographed by members. Indexed by city and year. Yours to look through.

Photographed by Alex Howard · 2024–2025 · Nepal, Thailand, Bulgaria, USA
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Two ways in

One door for writers. One for the contributors — cafés, hotels, guides, photographers — who help writers along the way.

User type 1 · the writer

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If you write things down — and you'd want to share them with people who do the same. Free to start. Two fields. Your first entry takes a minute.

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User type 2 · the contributor

Become a contributor

If you run a place writers visit — a café, a small hotel, a guide service. Or you make something for the magazine. Introduce yourself; we read every note.

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