A good guidebook can be the difference between an extremely frustrating trip, and a very simple one. I’ve had poor guidebooks that have left me tons of unanswered questions, terrible maps, inaccurate pricing information and wrong train timetables. Looking for a good guidebook with the information you need can be a challenge. Sometimes it involves getting five…
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Tips for cheaper airfare
International airport in Atlanta I wish I had a dime for every article I’ve read about the secrets to getting low airfare. There are a lot of theories out there, but from what I’ve read, there are no real answers on how this works. The prices go up and down and people try to predict…
To the Part-time Travelers
A lot of the travel blogs I read are from men and women who are full-time travelers. These are people who have left their homes and decided to be full-time nomads. They stay all over the world, sometimes for months at a time. They may have a home base, but they don’t really have a…
Secrets to using TripAdvisor
TripAdvisor is one of my favorite travel-related sites. It’s kind of the Wikipedia of traveling, in that it’s people like you and I who are writing reviews and feeding information. It’s a place to see actual photographs of a hotel or place taken by real people, not the company itself. It has all the information about…
Five mistakes I learned on my first trip overseas
It was our first trip to Italy together for our Honeymoon, and we couldn’t wait. However, being new to the whole foreign traveling thing, we certainly learned the hard way… In no particular order… here are five mistakes we made. 1. Using a tour-booking company I know travel companies can be a real…