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20 Things to Pack on Your Backpacking Trip

Packing for a backpacking trip is a challenge, to say the least. You have to consider all the items you need to keep you warm, dry, safe, and entertained throughout your trip and fit them all in a tiny space light enough to carry on your back for hours at a time. As a seasoned backpacking pro, I’m here to help you sort it out.

50 Places Women Should Never Travel Alone

Travel can be a beautiful element of the human experience. Discovering new places, people, cultures, and scenery opens our minds to the world around us. It is exciting, humbling, empowering, liberating, and endlessly rewarding. Unfortunately, it can also be dangerous, particularly if you happen to be a woman.

19 Tips for Taking the Trip of a Lifetime

Many travel agencies, tour organizers and tourism boards promise a “trip of a lifetime”: a travel experience that will stay with you for the rest of your days. Yet, any trip can have such an impact; it’s simply dependent on you and your attitude. Here’re 19 tips to help you make your next trip a trip of a lifetime.

5 Ways to Turn Cabbies Into Tour Guides

A cab ride can be an awkward affair, if you let it. The awkwardness compounds when you come from a background of small town living and a father who would rather walk the entirety of Rome than pay for a taxi back to the bus stop.

A Whale of a Time: Going on a Visa Run in Thailand

If you were to ask a hundred random westerners that had never been to southeast Asia, what a “visa run” is, you’d probably get a weird mixture of “charity 5k run?” and “competitive shopping?” responses. Ask the same question to just about anyone who has been to that unique and beautiful part of the world, and you’ll likely get nothing but glazed over eyes and some nervous twitches in response.

How to Keep Your Cool in Stressful Travel Situations

Going traveling is a big adventure, and most of the time, it’s fun. But travel can also put you in some tough situations, it’s nothing that you can’t deal with if you keep a level head though.

7 Reasons It Pays to Be a Type-A Traveler

While it’s true that traveling requires a willingness to go with the flow, there are a few reasons why it pays to be more type-A when it comes to traveling.