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My Solo Travel Promise

By on February 27, 2013 in backpacking, nightmares, RTW, travel

Tweet I have a secret that I am ashamed to share, but I feel like I have to. I hear the terrible news about female travelers getting murdered, beaten or raped abroad. Their names are seared into my memory. I think, and others vocalize, “How did they get themselves into that situation?” As if it [...]

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Healthy Eating While Traveling

By on May 31, 2012 in backpacking, cheap, food, hostels, RTW, travel

Tweet When you’re traveling, it’s easy to fall into the rut of greasy fast food out of cost and convenience. But it doesn’t have to be that way and you don’t have to subject yourself to plane food. I’ve got a few go-to recipes and snacks that I use in airports and hostel dorms all [...]

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Tours to Check Out

By on December 29, 2010 in RTW, tours, travel

TweetAlthough I’m a big fan of independent travel and planning my own adventures, sometimes, with specific destinations, it’s best to leave the planning up to the experts. On my first trip to Europe without my family, Christine and I decided to go with EF College Break because we only had a week before we had [...]

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Soundtrack for Adventures

By on October 4, 2010 in music, RTW, travel

TweetThere is a long list of songs that gets me pumped up for a trip. It may be songs that remind me of home, songs that get me excited to see a new place or songs that are just plain catchy. Here is my list of tunes that are a must for your travel playlist. [...]

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Living Like a Backpacker

By on September 22, 2010 in backpacking, postgrad, RTW, savings

Tweet Let’s face it. Backpacker’s don’t have the best reputation. They’re known for not showering enough, drinking too much and trying to get the absolute lowest price for everything. We’ve all been penny-pinching backpackers at some point and it gives us a lot of life lessons. You may pass up a night at a hotel [...]

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10 Trips I’m Dying to Take

By on September 20, 2010 in best, RTW, travel

Tweet Since I am starving in the desert known as the pre-trip departure months, I ordered one of each of STA Travel’s brochures, starting with one for Australia, for obvious research. Instead, I found myself in full on travel porn mode, flipping out at images of Fiji, South Africa and Brazil. I realize that I can’t [...]

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Meet Plan Go!

By on September 16, 2010 in RTW, travel, writing

Tweet Host Barbara Pagano of YourSabbatical.com working the crowds I wasn’t sure what I would get out of Meet Plan Go! at first. After all, it’s not like I have some great career to take a break from. I’m not even sure if I will ever have a career. But I went anyways, to see my fellow [...]

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The State of the Savings

By on September 12, 2010 in Australia, RTW, savings, travel

Tweet I’m about halfway through my pre-travel period. It’s been a little over 3 months since I decided to go to Australia and I’ve only been saving up since the end of July. It took me a month or so to pay off my debts from the last trip (my grandmother loaned me money for [...]

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Trip Relationships

By on August 25, 2010 in love, RTW, travel

Tweet I was familiar with the trip relationship concept long before one of my fellow travelers told me about his “bus girlfriend,” or the girl he hooked up with while on BusAbout‘s Eastern Trekker tour. It made perfect sense: enjoy each others’ company for a week or two, then at the end of the trip, promise to [...]

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Hostel Review: Silver Gate Hostel

By on August 2, 2010 in Croatia, Dalmatian Coast, Europe, hostels, review, RTW

TweetI know you’re sick of hearing about Croatia, but this is different…sort of. I haven’t reviewed a hostel in a while (mostly because I hadn’t stayed in one in a while), so I thought I would assess my summer hostel stays. [photo] Part of what I loved about Split was the people I met at my [...]

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