5 Tips on How to Prioritize Travel
Too many people say they love travel for us to suck so badly at it as a nation. I’m tired of hearing friends talk about one day vacations to Vegas or how happy they are to sneak away from the office for a week, a whole damn week! Too often now, I find myself in
Continue Reading...How I Came to Find My Travel Style in College
“This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” Shane Koyczan has some incredible spoken word poetry, but this is perhaps the most inspiring and thought provoking. I watch this spoken word performance on a near monthly basis. At times it’s a source of great comfort, to know there are
Continue Reading...The Best Travel Credit Card and Strategies to Find The Cheapest Flight
There are two questions that, hands down, we get more than any other question from friends and readers: Can you help me find a cheap flight? What’s the best credit card for earning free flights and hotels? The second question is the bread and butter of the whole traveling cheap game, so we’re getting to
Continue Reading...Crazy and Unusual Airport Trivia
When you spend enough time on the road, you learn some interesting things. We’ve covered the profound self discoveries of traveling alone, tapped into what motivates us most to travel, and profiled an incredible fellow traveler or two on this site. But we’ve left out one key post we know you’re all on pins and
Continue Reading...Qatar 787 Business Class Review
I’m not a sucker for most of the fancy things in life. I drive a 2004 Honda Accord I plan to drive till it stops running. I’ve lived in small apartments for most of my adult life. I’m fond of saying that I spend money on food and travel, and that’s about it. But I
Continue Reading...Tips When You Have to Visit an Emergency Room Abroad
If you follow our blog, you know I had the fortune to visit the Emergency Room in El Salvador recently. Fortune I say, because the life lesson learned ended up more profoundly impactful than any anxiety to visit an ER abroad. Vulernability, our willingness to collapse into our shared humanity with anyone willing to shoulder
Continue Reading...10 Vacation Ideas for Active Young Couples
Everybody has a different idea of the way that they want to spend their vacation. Most young couples these days prefer to spend theirs doing something active. Fortunately there are lots of opportunities for that and many companies that now cater specifically to this market. The following are some of the more popular vacation ideas
Continue Reading...Top Destinations for Stargazing
Man has been fascinated with the heavenly bodies since time in memorial. We have used it to study about our place in the universe, made stories about them, or just ogle at the sky’s pure beauty. If you are one of those who love looking up the sky and tracing the stars and their formation,
Continue Reading...Cancun: A Great Destination
One of the most popular vacation destinations is Cancun. A big part of the popularity is that it is easy for American travelers to get there. That however is certainly not the only reason; there are actually a lot of attractions in the region. Whatever type of vacation that you are looking to have you
Continue Reading...5 Unique Father’s Day Gifts for Travel
Father’s Day around the corner, and this one is a bit interesting for me: Laura’s pregnant, and due in about a month. We announced this back in February when we wrote a “Letter to My Unborn Child” sharing what we hope he might gleam from his own travels, 9 countries he’s joined us in, all
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