A Husband and Wife Travel Around the World
The sound of street vendors haggling with tourists is a loud buzz in my ears. The smell of marinated meat being grilled fills the humid air. It is my first day in what many consider the world’s greatest Chinatown, right near the center of Kuala Lumpur, and I am overwhelmed. I want to go explore […]
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Budgets are boring. Projections are always wrong. Both of these statements are true, but ignore the bigger picture. Without a proper budget, you will spend too much on the little things and have no money left for food or a bed. Without a projection, you will have no idea how much to save for your travels and […]
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Traveling couples have to travel differently than all you single folks. Don’t believe me? Think about this: Hostels usually aren’t the best accommodation for a couple. Especially on a financial basis. As a single traveler, hostels are a great way to access cheap accommodations while visiting a city. The tradeoff typically is the lack of […]
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“Don’t worry about how much it costs to live in Western Europe. Air travel is so cheap and easy!” How many naive backpackers have uttered this phrase? Have you? I sure did. But then you actually go ahead, book that “cheap flight” for the first time on Ryanair, and see it isn’t quite so easy. […]
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Considering that Tony and I are travelling with 32 liter backpacks for our year-long trip around the world, I would say that we did a pretty AWESOME job packing. However, there were several things that I didn’t think I would need for our travels… Until I got on the road. These items below have been […]
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Talking about differences in gender is always problematic. It is not just the differences between men and women only. Talking about any group in general terms is problematic. Nobody is an exact composite of a group and there are always outliers. Plus, my advice will not necessarily correlate to just any woman. But from my personal experience […]
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photo credit: PNASH I am no expert about PKD (trust me), but have had to do a few extra things because of it when I was preparing to travel. So hopefully you take my earlier advice and decide to travel NOW, but also know that just because you take the leap doesn’t mean you shouldn’t […]
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We recently arrived in the gorgeous Cusco, Peru where we will be for 8 days before our epic hike of Machu Picchu. Our plan over the next 8 days will be to relax and prepare ourselves for the trek of a lifetime, while also exploring all the great sights that Cusco (the historic capital of […]
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