11 Must-Have Resources for Long Term Travelers
Many dream of spending their lives traveling the world. To help long-term travelers keep their affairs in order here are 11 resources to help you keep things on track.
New Years Eve Traditions From the Americas to Europe
The past 2 years we’ve been celebrating New Years Eve outside the United States. See what fun New Years Eve traditions we’ve picked up from around the globe.
Accents: The Pros and Cons of How We Speak
Accents are an important part of understanding and learning languages. The pros and cons of having a distinct accent vary from sexy foreigner to discrimination.
The World Outgames: Your Next Gay Travel Destination
We love to use special events as reasons to check out new travel destinations and wrote an article for GayTravel.com about traveling for the World OutGames.
Travel Reflections: How Close Are We to Returning to the US?
A fellow travel blogger recently posted a link on Facebook to this page: The Travel Experience In 35 Gifs: From Quitting At Home To Shitting Abroad (take a look!). Auston and I about shit our pants laughing at them. For us, they were about 90% accurate and 200% hilarious. Nothing explains trying to get your travel visas sorted out better than Bruce Willis crawling through an air duct with a lighter as his guide in “Die Hard”. In fact, that was our exact experience when applying for our Indian visas. Then we died laughing at the GIF expressing what it’s like to introduce yourself to the people you meet abroad over and over and over and OVER again.
Our Best and Worst Visa Experiences
Thus far, we’ve been to about 35 countries in the past 15 months and of those, seven have required applying for visas. Some have been as simple as getting them at the border and others have been painstaking endeavors that tested the very limits of our sanity. Exaggeration – that is not! Sometimes it was […]
Our Secrets to Affordable Long Term Travel
Want to know how you can afford to travel long term? We’ve been traveling for over a year but have managed to spend less than $3,500 monthly while on the road.
Our Picks For Spain’s Best Summer Festivals
May has finally arrived and summer is just behind it! We spent last summer touring Central America for six weeks and then ended it with a three month trek around Europe. We can’t believe we get to spend another summer here, especially since the last one just about wiped us out! But now that spring […]
Meeting New People In A New City Offline And In Person
Meeting people in a new city can be difficult… if you let it. There are plenty of ways to make new friends so we explore ways to meet people without resorting to online social networks and relying on good old fashion face-to-face contact. This is the follow-up post to Part 1: meeting people through online social networks. There are great options for meeting people online, but let’s not forget about the old-fashioned face-to-face concept!
Is A European Rail Pass Worth The Money?
Discover if the Eurail pass is right for you. We spent a summer traveling by train with a Europass and we share our thoughts on whether it’s worth the money.