What’s your favorite mode of travel?

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Planes, trains and automobiles.  Traveling requires some mode of transportation, even if it’s just your feet.   For 21 months we transported ourselves around the world. Let’s just say we became intimately aquainted with the semi-cama buses in South America, the back seat of a Land Rover throughout Africa and the upper bunk of trains [...]

Forced to Change Plans

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I know we’ve sanctimoniously posted about how to find things to do in the rain, but there are just some rain storms you don’t play around with: That’s right, a hurricane. In Mexico City for a few days before heading to Cancun for a friend’s wedding, we opened our email early Sunday morning to a [...]

So, You Want to Make A Travel Show!

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Editor’s Note: There are lots of travel blogs out there, so setting yourself apart can be a difficult & creative endeavor. We asked Mehdy Ghannad from The Hostel Life, to share with us a behind the scenes look at what it takes to put together an episode of his show. People always say, “You have [...]

My first trip abroad

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Do you remember your first trip abroad? I was fourteen when I first went overseas. Headed to the United Kingdom with a student group, I thought I was the coolest fourteen year old on the planet.  I remember putting on make-up for my passport photo – real make up and for probably the first and [...]