Questions that arrive most often

Is this a booking site

No. Nothing on this site can be booked, reserved, held, purchased, or paid for. There is no basket, no checkout, no price of any kind, and no mechanism by which money could change hands even if somebody wanted it to.

Krueger Travel is a journal. It publishes long written pieces with photographs and the practical notes that came out of the same trips. Everything a reader might act on has to be arranged with somebody else, and this site takes no part in that and earns nothing from it.

Are you a travel agency or a tour operator

No, and it is worth saying this in the specific terms the words are usually used in. This is not a travel agency, not a tour operator, not a booking platform, not a fare comparison service, and not an agent for any of those. No trips are organised, no groups are led, no itineraries are sold, and no travel product of any kind is offered.

The publisher is a small publishing company. Its business is writing and photographs.

Are you affiliated with any airline, hotel or platform

No. There is no affiliation, partnership, sponsorship, membership, or commercial relationship with any airline, hotel, resort, ferry operator, rental company, tour company, or booking platform.

No place that appears in a story paid for the mention, hosted a stay, provided anything free of charge, or was told in advance that it would be written about. Where a story names a town, a road, a park or a bay, it is because somebody stood in it with a camera.

How does the site make money

The journal is funded by the company that publishes it, Krueger Editions LLC, and by nothing else.

There are no affiliate links, no commissions, no sponsored posts, no advertising running on the site as published, and no paid placements of any kind. That is the position today and the Disclaimer records it. If it ever changes, the change will be stated on the About page and marked at the top of any story it affects, before the first paragraph, and any advertising would be labelled as advertising.

Who writes and photographs everything

One person, Marin Krueger, writes every word and makes every photograph. There are no contributors, no guest writers, no agency copy, and no purchased or stock imagery anywhere on the site.

Photographs are made on the same trips the stories describe. They are adjusted for exposure, contrast and colour the way any working photographer adjusts a frame, and they are never composited, relocated, or built out of more than one moment. If a picture shows a bay under cloud, the bay was under cloud.

How often does a new story appear

Roughly every six weeks, though the honest answer is that a piece is published when it is finished.

The delay is deliberate. A story usually sits for about a month between the trip and the publishing date, because first impressions are loud and often wrong, and what is still interesting after four weeks tends to be the part worth keeping. Sorting a few hundred frames down to fewer than twenty, then editing those, takes longer than writing the text does.

Can I use one of your photographs

Ask first. Photographs are the property of Krueger Editions LLC and are not licensed for reuse by default, and that includes reposting a frame with a credit line, which is still reuse.

Requests are considered individually and answered with a plain yes or no. Say where the image would appear, in what context, and for how long. Short quotations from the writing with a link back are fine without asking, provided the quotation is short and the cut does not reverse the meaning.

Can you plan my trip or recommend where to go

No, and the reason is practical rather than precious. A useful recommendation depends on dates, budget, fitness, weather in a particular week, what is open that season, and what a person actually enjoys, and none of that is visible from an inbox. An answer written confidently from here would be worth less than an hour spent with local sources and current official information.

What the site can offer instead is the pieces themselves. Each one ends with a block recording what the trip actually took in hours and days, what worked, and where I turned back.

Do you accept guest posts, links or sponsored content

No. Guest posts, sponsored articles, paid mentions, link exchanges, and requests to insert a link into an existing story are all declined without exception, and messages proposing them are not answered.

This is not a policy that has a price attached to it further down. There is no arrangement available.

Is the safety advice in the field notes reliable

Treat it as one traveler's working method and not as authority.

The field notes describe how I personally approach an unfamiliar coast: standing still for a quarter of an hour, reading the wet line on rock, counting sets before trusting an interval. They are written because the habit has been useful, and they are honest about being the habits of a visitor rather than an expert.

They are not a substitute for posted signs, local advice, lifeguard direction, official warnings, or a current forecast. Where anything on this site conflicts with any of those, follow the official source and not the story. Conditions on any coast change, sometimes within an hour, and no written piece can account for the day you are standing there.

Why do the same places come back more than once

Because a coast in February and the same coast in August are not the same subject, and treating them as one is how travel writing ends up flattening everything it describes.

Returning to a place also fixes the biggest weakness of a single visit, which is that you get whatever week you happened to book. A bay seen once is a bay in one mood. Seen across a wet season and a dry one, it starts to have a character you can write about with some confidence.

What information does the site collect about me

As published, the site sets no advertising or analytics identifiers, and there are no third party trackers, pixels, or embedded widgets on any page.

One item is stored in your browser: a single local storage entry recording whether you have answered the notice about that storage, so the notice stays closed. If you send a message through the contact form, the details you type are transmitted to the desk so a reply can be written. The Privacy Policy covers all of it, including how long anything is kept and how to ask for it to be deleted, and the Cookie Policy lists every stored item by name.

How do I correct something that is wrong

Write to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and say which story and which detail.

Corrections are the most useful mail this site gets, and they are dealt with in the same session they are read. Anything that changes what a reader might do is published at the top of the affected story with the date attached. Typographical fixes are made silently, because a note recording a fixed comma helps nobody.

When will I get a reply

During desk hours, which are Monday through Wednesday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, Hawaii Standard Time. Hawaii does not observe daylight saving, so that offset stays constant all year while other places move around it.

In practice a note sent early in the week is usually answered the same week. A note sent on Thursday is answered the following Monday. Requests about personal data go to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and are handled inside the periods the relevant law sets.