Tips and Tricks
From Quito to Paris, it’s been quite a year. Eight months of living out of a backpack have taught me a thing or two. The countless, buses, boats, and blunders have contributed more to my knowledge than my formal education ever did. Here are a few tips from my travels.
Read more “8 Things I’ve Learned From 8 Months of Traveling”
Tips and Tricks
I remember my first time in a hostel. London. 2015. After walking through the door in the back of the bar and up the stairs, I got to my room. Well…our room.
Read more “5 Reasons Why a Hostel Private Room is the Solo Traveler’s Holy Grail”
Commentary
I’m guilty! I bet you are, too. We engage in rapid-fire travel. We try to jam as much as possible into our limited vacation time.
When you only have two weeks a year away from work, you have to make every second count.
Read more “4 Reasons Why Slow Travel is Better Than Your Typical Vacation”
Tips and Tricks
Are you planning a vacation and have no idea how to speak the local tongue? Perhaps you have a significant other from another country? Maybe you just want a challenge?
Read more “7 Ways to Learn a Language (If You’re Serious About It)”
Tips and Tricks
Just as I have become accustomed to using these foreign contraptions called “drawers,” “laundry machines,” and “refrigerators,” it’s just about time to shove my entire life into a backpack once again. In case it might be helpful to anyone else who is considering going on a multi-month trip, I thought I’d share what I now consider to be the essentials. Any links that I post are entirely on my own accord as I am nowhere near fancy enough to be getting paid.
Read more “Inside My Backpack”