Posts Tagged ‘Health’

19 Diseases You Can Get While Traveling

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil shined a giant spotlight on the many dangerous diseases that we can contract while traveling. Thankfully, most can be prevented, which is why it’s important to know before you go! While the whole Zika Beetlejuice head-shrinking thing may sound cool in theory, it isn’t something I’d want to live with.

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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.

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20 Alternatives to a Hotel

As a generation that grew up on budget backpacking journeys across Europe / Southeast Asia / name your gap year, we haven’t been able to shake the idea that hotels are way too expensive. Many of us actually find the idea of staying at a hotel ludicrous.

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17 Countries With the Worst Police Brutality

As tensions flair between civilians in the United States and the police forces that are sworn to protect them, international attention has been turning toward the subject of police brutality. To be sure, the statistics about police brutality in the United States tell a dire tale, but the country is far from alone when it comes to stories of police overreach around the world.

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