Tips, Advice, & How-To’s
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Preparation
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How to Travel with Friends Without Wanting to Kill Each Other - Tips so that you can remain friends after you return.
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Why Travel Light? 10 Reasons to Pack Less - Reasons why packing and traveling light is the way to go.
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How to Pack and Travel Light - Know why you should? Then do it.
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Checking With the CDC before Leaving - Why checking the Center for Disease Control’s website is a prudent thing to do.
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Know Your Vaccinations Before Traveling - A guide to the most common vaccinations and preventive measures recommended prior to travel abroad.
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Don’t Be Feckless or Reckless, Use a Checklist – A guide on why and how to use a checklist as you pack for travels.
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Alternative Travel Terms - Some useful words, phrases, terms, and neologisms pertaining to alternative travel.
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Lose Your Preconceived Notions - Before planning a trip, forget everything that you’ve ever heard about the destination, and discover it for yourself.
Insight/Musings
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What Kind Of Traveler Are You? - There are many terms for the way each of us travels; neologisms and other expressions.
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I Believe That I Can Consider Myself A Traveler Now - When do I become a traveler?
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Minimizing Regrets by Traveling – Traveling as early as possible, to avoid possible future regret.
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The 48 Hour Jaunt – Traveling for brief periods, such as on weekends, to cooperate with a 9-5, M-F career.
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Satisfy Your Indulgences Abroad – Perhaps you should get that mani/pedi while traveling?
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See It Twice; Once Shouldn’t Suffice – Why you should give every destination a second chance.
Couchsurfing
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All About CouchSurfing: The Complete Guide - When you aren’t traveling, yet missing the feel of being abroad, why not host a friend or new acquaintance in your home from abroad?
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Giddy Nonetheless: Can’t Travel? Bring Destinations to You - When you aren’t traveling, yet missing the feel of being abroad, why not host a friend or new acquaintance in your home from abroad?
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Meeting the Locals Via CouchSurfing - How my trip to Warsaw was enriched exponentially by meeting some natives via CouchSurfing.org.
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Surfing My First Couch in Warsaw, Poland - A recap of how I lost my CouchSurfing virginity.
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How to Get Rich Hosting a Couchsurfer - All about the value a CouchSurfing host could receive from their guests.
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My First CouchSurfing Hosting Experience - The summary of my first time as a CouchSurfing host.
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CouchSurfers Can Be Bad Influences - I never knew Couchsurfers could be so fun!
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Gift and a Curse: Making Friends Abroad - How couchsurfers become great friends, but now I am compelled to visit them again, rather than traveling to new places!
En Route
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Four Items That Could Get You a Pat-Down from the TSA – A few items that could be discarded in carry-on luggage.
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3 Tips for Traveling with Pets - A few tips for taking your pet on your next trip.
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Encountering The U.S. Customs and Border Protection – An experience with the U.S. C.B.P.
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The Best Programs to Speed You Through Airport Security – Expedited security programs from various countries, and how they stack up to each other.
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Talking to Airline Agents: Calm or Anxious? – Sometimes it pays to procrastinate and worry about being late!
Purchasing (Fares, Rooms, Etc.)
General
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How to Travel as Inexpensively as Possible - Ways to maximize mileage and minimize costs.
Flights – General
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How to Book Cheap Flights - Use these suggestions to virtually guarantee the cheapest fare possible.
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Which Airline Alliance Should I Join? - Things to consider as you navigate the pros and cons of each of the “Big 3″ airline alliances.
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Which Frequent Flyer Program Should I Join? - Factors that should be considered before choosing one program over another. Which program is best?
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The Mileage Run - What is it? How can it help me earn rewards? How can I construct one? An introduction to the creative art of mileage running, along with the proper methods to build your own.
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Finding Destinations By Deals, Rather Than Deals By Destination – A different approach to traveling on a budget.
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Airline Industry Terms - Some useful words, phrases, terms, and neologisms pertaining to the airline industry.
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Airport & Flight Terminology - Some useful words, phrases, terms, and neologisms pertaining to flights and airports.
Flights – Kayak.com
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How to Use Every Option to Find the Ideal Flight - Guide to all the flight search features and options available on Kayak.com to help you find the perfect flight at the best price.
Flights – Flyertalk.com
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Get in the Know: Navigating FlyerTalk.com - Guide to using the foremost frequent flier forum to obtain inside deals on airfare, mileage runs, and program points.
Accommodations – General
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Hospitality Industry Terms - Some useful words, phrases, terms, and neologisms pertaining to the hospitality industry.
Transportation – Other
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Traveling By Bus – Why bus travel may not be so bad after all.
At Destination
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How To Travel Alone - For solo travelers/backpackers, how to deal with safety, boredom, depression, etc. while traveling alone; benefits of traveling solo.
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Bring Home Proper Souvenirs! – A guide to advise on which souvenirs should be taken home.
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What the U.S. State Department Can and Can’t Do for You in a Crisis – For U.S. Citizens when traveling abroad, what/what not to expect from the State Dept.
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6 Reasons To Eat Street Food – Several benefits of eating the working-class street grub.
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How to Stay Fit and Slim While on Vacation – Key things to remember to not lose your way when relaxing abroad.
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The Traveler’s Guide to Sleeping Well – Don’t succumb to poor sleep while traveling; Sleep right with these tips, and have a better time while you’re awake.
World
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18 Unique New Year’s Tradtions – New Year’s/New Year’s Eve traditions from around the world, some hard to imagine!
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Using the Backpacker’s Monologue – A different approach to studying basic words and phrases in a foreign language.
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Common Gestures In One Place, But Offensive Elsewhere – Gestures used around the world that may be misinterpreted as obscene or rude in other cultures.
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Important Words, Phrases, and Gestures to Know When Traveling – A list of the words and phrases that are important to memorize when traveling abroad.
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The Easiest Places to Travel From – A list of the top 25 places to live/be based to have easy access to the most major airports.
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Ethnicity, Nationality, Race, Heritage, and Culture – The differences among these related terms to help you understand and see the differences.
Travel Blogging
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15 Ideas for Travel Blog Posts - Writer’s block? Here are 15 ideas to get you back in the game.
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Less Travel, Less Inspiration - How actual travel is necessary to perpetuate new blog posts.
Language Learning
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Is a Language Exchange the Way to Go? - What language exchanges are, how they work, and how to tell if it’s for you.
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Learning Languages Like a Baby - One of the best methods to learn the basics is to become a child again.
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