Celebrating Holidays While Traveling
How do we celebrate holidays while we are from friends, family, and everything else familiar?
Are guidebooks really worth anything?
I’m sure you’ve seen them. The people walking around with a guidebook in their hand, referring to a map to find the next landmark they seek, or perhaps that perfect place for coffee that was recommended. Guidebooks such as Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, Moon, and many others fill up endless shelves at bookstores. In speaking with fellow travelers it isn’t uncommon to hear “Oh XYZ [book] recommended that...
More Travel Tips
In my last post I shared some travel tips on finding cheaper travel,getting discounts, etc. Now I want to delve a little deeper and cover some of the things people don’t always think about or issues they don’t always know how to resolve. And just so you know, I’m not receiving any type of renumeration for these recommendations. They’re just things I’ve found to be helpful, and I wanted to pass them...
Tips for Getting Around
—Updated on 20 June 2013 From time to time I get emails or other messages asking me for tips on finding low fares, etc. There are all kinds of tips out there so mine are probably not mind-blowing ideas. Still they work well for me and are based on personal experience. We all know airfare can be quite expensive. It is even more so within the US or when using US airlines which lately charge more and more and provide less and less...
My First Intro to Honduras (Sucked)
People often travel for adventure, no? We’ve had a couple of small “adventures” during our current journey, but none have had me wondering about my decision to give up “normal” life and make this journey like our trip from beautiful, tranquil, Flores, Guatemala to the Bay Islands of Honduras. I know others have had worse experiences, and really in hindsight it wasn’t that bad, but that’s the...
Swimming With a Bus
Sure you see the pics of whale sharks and think Wow, they’re really huge! But you really can’t absorb it until you’ve been in the water with the behemoths. With this in mind we headed to Isla Mujeres, Mexico. We jumped aboard the bus in Playa del Carmen and went to downtown Cancun, crossed a busy street, and then waited in line for our hot, sweaty colectivo ride to Puerto Juarez to take the 20-minute ferry ride to...
