Category: General Travel
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Do You Need a Backpack for Day Trips?
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Can You Embark on a Day Trip Adventure With Just a Few Things In Your Pockets? There’s an entire segment of the traveling population out there who prefers to travel with as little baggage as possible. Often referred to as minimalist travel, it becomes quite a freeing and easy way…
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When Is It Time to Throw In the Adventure Vacation Towel?
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How Old Is Too Old for Hours of Walking, Hiking, and Adventuring? I think we all have some sense of adventure within us, even if we never really travel too far from home and only watch travel shows online where people do crazy things like zipline through jungles full of…
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Finding a Public Toilet in Rome
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If You’re Not Patronizing a Business, Public Toilets are Hard to Find Italy is a country that is quite focused on tourism, but you wouldn’t know it from the availability of public toilets, especially in Rome. I’m one of those people who needs to arrange much of my life around…
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Take an Instagram Tour of Los Angeles With Me
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Would You Like to Get Some Awesome Photographs for Your Los Angeles Trip? I’ve lived in Los Angeles for almost 25 years, and I’ve taken thousands of photographs over the years. One of the benefits of having lived in several places around LA is that I’ve gotten to know all…
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What Does a US Citizen Need to Travel to Colombia?
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Can You Enter Colombia With Nothing More than a Passport and a Good Pair of Walking Shoes? So, before we launch into it here, let me share that this blog represents information available as of March 2024. I may update the post in the future if things change dramatically, but…
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Must-Have Items for Convenient International Travel
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What Items Can Make Your International Trip Easier? Are you a traveler who doesn’t get easily annoyed? Are you one of those folks who can pack a bag in about ten minutes and take off for parts unknown without any worry about forgetting something? Well, even if you don’t really…
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Do You Need Local Currency in Every Foreign Country?
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Do You Need to Visit a Currency Exchange Every Time You Travel? You may assume that every time you visit another country that you should arrive with some local currency in your pocket. However, that’s actually not always the case. Not only do some countries operate almost exclusively on digital…
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Learning To Sleep During Iceland’s Midnight Sun
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Is the Sun Really Up All Night in Iceland During the Summer? My trip to Iceland was amazing, and I was wowed every day by all the amazing things I got to see during our road trip. Since I visited during June, I was treated to days that almost never…
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When To Travel To Vietnam
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Is There a “Best” Time to Visit Vietnam? The “best” time to visit any place will almost always be subjective since different things people encounter while traveling vary in their importance. For example, one traveler might base every single ounce of her travel on the weather. Is it nice for…
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Getting Great Sleep on an International Vacation
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Can You Sleep on Vacation Just Like You Do at Home? For many of us, it always seems like the first night you have in a different country or on a vacation that takes you far away from home is that it’s really tough to get to sleep. Even if…