Trip Planning Technique: San Sebastian, Spain to Utrecht, The Netherlands
Honing your skills for making your own reservations and travel plans is a core practice for becoming an experience independent traveler.
Travel How-Tos
Tips for traveling solo, independently, and frugal. These are ideas and lessons that I have acquired through experience.
Turning Drudgery into an Adventure
I got to thinking about how challenging this marathon voyage might be when I booked it. I wondered if I was biting off more than I could chew—would it be too much for me?
5 More Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel
My goal is to be in and out of the common kitchen as quickly and with as little mess as possible. You can create stunning and healthy whole-meal salads or sandwiches with little to no actual standing-over-the-stove cooking—and very little clean-up.
5 Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel
My strategy for affording to visit some of my favorite European countries includes preparing most of my own meals and saving restaurants for the occasional special treats or opportunities to sample local fare.
Dealing with Airport Taxi Paparazzi & Strategies for Market Shopping
But before you are legally in the country you must pass through the three trials: immigration, baggage claim, and customs…Then, as soon as you exit customs into the “ARRIVAL HALL,” you face a gauntlet of taxi drivers with the manners of paparazzi.
The Best Way to Fly Across France!
I LOVE trains for so many reasons: no security lines, show up at the station 10 minutes before departure, carry on everything and have all your stuff available to you during the trip, wide seats, easy to walk around, scenery, low-carbon footprint, AND I can have my knitting!!
The Art of Quitting: Finding Gratitude in Disappointment
Sometimes (well, many times) when you are traveling, things don’t turn out the way you envisioned them. I had such great plans to visit some parts of Scotland and for the past year I had even visualized myself there.
Islas! Islas!*
I decided to take a little tourist jaunt to the island of Amantani in Lake Titicaca. You can purchase a tour from one of many agencies in Puno, but if you go to the pier in Puno and pay the captain directly for the trip and then pay your host family directly, the families receive more of the proceeds and don’t have to wait for the agency to send the money.