How to make your travel dreams a reality

How to make your travel dreams a reality

So you want to go overseas this year, but you aren’t ready to sell it all and vagabond your way around the world? You don’t have to quit your job, give up your apartment and sell your worldly possessions to have an amazing travel adventure in 2011. And I’m not talking about just staying home [...]

Country Guide: China

Country Guide: China

Traveling overland through mainland China offers a great combination of comfort and value for money. Our two greatest challenges were choosing where to go and how to communicate with people. First we’ll talk about some of the hurdles to traveling in China and then try to help you out a bit on destination planning. Essentials [...]

Budget Report: The Silk Road

Budget Report: The Silk Road

The fabled silk road.  We completed Istanbul to China, our last great overland adventure of this trip.  Traveling our modified silk road proved to be far more expensive than we thought it would be. Visas ate up a huge amount of our budget (about $10/day between us), but there’s really no way around that.  Turkey [...]

All Aboard the Soviet Train

All Aboard the Soviet Train

When we arrived in Kazakhstan as part of our Central Asia overland, we knew the first thing we had to do was purchase a train ticket. We did so, using a mix of pictures and charades, and later that night arrived for our first real train journey on this entire trip. Aboard the train we [...]