Here are seven surprising things about travel I never thought I’d like but I do.
Here are seven surprising things about travel I never thought I’d like but I do.
Sure everything looks better on social media, but when it comes to travel posts in particular, a new study shows much of what we see isn’t really real.
For some people, a five-hour flight feels like pretty close to forever. I’m not one of those people, but I do know that those people would not know what to do with themselves if the length of that already-too-long five-hour flight happened to, say, triple.
Here are the best resources I’ve found that promise to help you live your best travel life.
The thing about travel is it’s meant to free you. Make you feel liberated, alive, inspired. It’s meant to be new, an experience that’s different from what you normally experience. So…if you do the same things you always do when you travel, you may be cheating yourself out of everything that adventure could be.
Everybody thinks they’ve got a tip when it comes to scoring the best deals on trips: book flights on a Tuesday, clear your cache so “they” don’t know you really want the flight, book hotel and airfare together, book four months in advance—no four days in advance. Ugh. The mixed signals are enough to set anyone crazy and make them just book what they see when they see it, deal or no deal.
For some people, the idea of traveling somewhere solo sounds sad and lonely, while for others of us, it sounds like freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. For those of you who haven’t tried it yet and aren’t sure, here are some tips for ways to do it and love it.
Provided you haven’t committed crimes, or aren’t planning to commit crimes, signing up for Global Entry should be your next highest priority.
for those of us itching to travel, not having a new horizon to set your sights sometimes feels a little unnatural, or even bleak. But have no fear, since I am currently in what I consider to be a travel dry spell, I have some ideas on how to cope.
Sometimes you dream about a place so much, fantasize about yourself in it for so long, that by the time you reach it, the “wow” you expected to feel is really more like a “meh.” Well that was absolutely not the case with the Pyramids. In this case, I think the experience topped the fantasies.