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8 Ways To Stretch Your Short Vacation Days

For many, extended vacations are all but impossible. Lola Akinmade reveals eight tips to get the most out of your short vacation weeks.

5 Simple Ways to Beat Your Travel Budget

Chris Cook outlines five simple ways to whip your travel budget into shape.

7 Tips for Being the Perfect Traveler’s Host

After hosting travelers from every corner of the globe, Andrea Wren reveals 7 tips on how to be the host(ess) with the mostest.

Feeling Lost in Life? 7 Reasons Why You Should Travel Now

Stuck in a rut, not sure where to turn, or just need a change of pace in your life? Amanda Kendle presents 7 reasons why travel may be the answer.

10 Essential Tips to Improve Your Hitchhiking Game

After hitching all over the world, Turner Wright reveals his 10 best secrets for improving your hitchhiking game.

How and Why Do You See the World?

So many ways to see the world. Nora Dunn asks, “How and why do you travel?”

8 Simple Steps to Achieve Your Travel Goals

Turn your vacation daydreaming into travel reality with these 8 simple steps.

How to Travel Independently for the First Time

Amanda Kendle offers five steps to traveling independently for the first time.

9 Tips for Finding the Perfect Travel Souvenir

Isabel Eva Bohrer reveals 9 tips to help you navigate the tricky path towards finding the perfect travel souvenir.

5 Things You Should Know About Travel Insurance

Drowning in rate comparisons and travel insurance jargon? Amanda Kendle reveals the five things every traveler should know before signing on their policy’s dotted line.

Why Budget Travelers Are Not All “Stereotypical Backpackers”

Contrary to popular belief, not all budget travelers are what we might consider “stereotypical backpackers”. Veteran budget traveler, Amanda Kendle, explains why.

Confessions of a Traveling Packrat

Jessica Spiegel eschews minimalist travel in favor of hoarding every last scrap of souvenir trash she can collect.

Rainy Day Travel: 5 Places to Beat the Crowds When the Sun Doesn’t Shine

Eva Holland discusses how to save money and soak up the local scene when the sun doesn’t shine.

Really Slow Travel: Walking Your Way Around the World

Amanda Kendle advocates slowing down on your travels and truly absorbing your surroundings.

How to Achieve a Work-Travel Balance

How does one find a healthy balance between work and travel? Isabel Eva Bohrer explains.

7 Things You’ll Learn About Yourself by Moving Abroad

Thinking of moving abroad? Amanda Kendle explains why taking the leap can help you learn all kinds of new things about yourself.

Budget Travel 101: 5 Ways to Save on Flights Abroad

You don’t want to break the bank when traveling abroad. Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 5 simple tips for reducing flight & transportation costs.

The World’s 10 Worst Travel Diseases

Turner Wright explores the ten worst diseases for world travelers.

Keep It Simple: 8 Ways to Find Travel Planning Zen

Amanda Kendle reveals 8 tips to mastering the art of simplicity in travel planning.

5 Destinations Where You Can Sleep in a Work of Art

Looking for a unique place to stay? Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 5 hotels worth staying in purely because of their art and architecture.

Making a Second Visit: Why Traveling Somewhere Again is a Great Idea

Amanda Kendle reveals why it’s a good idea to consider traveling to destinations that you’ve already visited.

6 Real Tips To Beat Jet Lag

Forget the endless online tips, cure-all medications and bits of expert advice that claim to beat jet leg. Amanda Kendle reveals the six ways that actually work.

How to Plan a Trip Without Making Any Plans

Being spontaneous and free with where you go, what you see, and when, is great, but you need some broad brush strokes of ideas to actually get you there.

Live Like Indiana Jones: 5 Greatest Unsolved Archaeological Mysteries

Want to live like Indiana Jones? Don that leather coat and fedora and try solving five of the world’s greatest unsolved mysteries.

The Rise of Medical Tourism: Shopping the World for Medical Procedure Bargains

Exploring the rise of medical tourism – a growing cottage industry that caters to travelers shopping the world’s hospitals for medical procedures at bargain basement prices.

7 Tips for Enjoying a Small Town Stopover

Amanda Kendle reveals her top tips for making the most of small town stopovers.

9 Unique Reading Hotels and Resorts

Are you looking to read and travel? Look no further and stay at an official Literature Hotel. Isabel Eva Bohrer shares 9 establishments to get you started.