On the cover: This issue’s Summer Road Trip special is here to help guide you to uke-nique destinations around the country, from the best ukulele shops to bountiful must-do road-trip stops. With a Travel Uke Roundup and advice on keeping your uke safe and healthy while traveling. Plus: Byron Yasui and his work to elevate what’s possible on the ukulele, libraries are branching into lending ukuleles, Curt Sheller’s ukulele jazz and online instruction, Gibson’s ever-changing ukuleles, an unusual sheet-metal uke, plus lessons, reveiews, and 3 songs: Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles, Route 66 by Bobby Troup, and Down in the Valley. 82 pp.