Travel How -To’s

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Embracing Solo Travel

After a few months of moving about, I figured out the styles of travel that work for me.Of course, I would never expect anyone to travel the exact way that ...
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Slow Down, You Move too Fast

This is the third in a series of articles to help you decide what methods and styles of travel work well for you.  Today, I will talk about slow travel, and ...
18 Ways I Save Money while Traveling

18 Ways I Save While Traveling

This is the second in a series of articles to help you decide what methods and styles of travel work well for you. Today, I will discuss some considerations regarding ...
Long Term Travel...Is it for you?

Is Long-Term Travel for You?

This is the first in a series of articles to help you decide what methods and styles of travel work well for you. Today, I will discuss some considerations regarding ...
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Introduction to My Book: Dream.Plan.Travel.

Introduction to My Book: Dream. Plan. Travel.  I am posting the Introduction to Dream. Plan. Travel. here so you can get an idea of what it is about and why ...
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Trip Planning Technique: San Sebastian, Spain to Utrecht, The Netherlands

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 experienced independent ...
Flight map of my long-haul journey from Indonesia to Ecuador

Turning Drudgery into an Adventure

Turning Drudgery into an Adventure 19 March 2019—Somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean I am in the middle of my 50-hour, long-haul journey from Gili Air, Indonesia to Quito Ecuador. Today, ...
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5 More Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel

5 More Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel This is Part Two of a two-part series on food strategies for budget travelers.You can read the first part here. This is ...
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5 Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel

5 Food Strategies for Affordable European Travel This is Part One of a two-part series on food strategies for budget travel. During 2017–18, I spent thirteen months in Europe, including ...
Decorated Bread in the Osh Market in Bishkek

Dealing with Airport Taxi Paparazzi & Strategies for Market Shopping

Dealing with Airport Taxi Paparazzi & Strategies for Market Shopping Yes, I know this is not a photo of taxi drivers--I will get to the bread in a moment... I ...
Four train tickets from San Sebastian to Utrecht

The Best Way to Fly Across France!

The Best Way to Fly Across France Four trains--four tickets. One is a QR-code on my tablet. This is the way to "fly" to the Netherlands—screaming through the French countryside ...
Overlookin Loch a'Choire near Pitlochry, Scotland

The Art of Quitting: Finding Gratitude in Disappointment

The Art of Quitting:Finding Gratitude in DisappointmentSometimes (well, many times) when you are traveling, things don’t turn out the way you envisioned them. I had such great plans to visit ...
Reed boat in front of one of the Uros Islands on Lake Amantani

Islas! Islas!*

Islas! Islas!* * Islands! Islands!For the weekend of my 60th birthday (March 22), I decided to take a little tourist jaunt to the Uros and Amantani Islands via boat. You ...