Archive for Travel Tips & Advice

Cup of Coffee

How To Spend Your First 20 Minutes In A New Country

Coffee? You’ll see. So, your flight lands. You walk off the plane and proceed to the Immigration lines. You receive your entry stamp in your passport. You collect your luggage from the luggage carousel and you walk through the Customs … Read more

Passport Stamps

Why I Don’t Plan To Visit Every Country In The World

As excited as I am when I first step foot into a country I’ve never visited before, I must not deny the fact that there is also a part of me that, these days, just wants to travel to countries … Read more

Johns Hopkins University

Do You Need A University Degree To Travel Long-Term?

The quick answer to this question is of course a big fat ‘no’. It’s not as if you’ll be asked for your university diploma when entering a new country and you certainly won’t need to show proof of extended study … Read more

Productive Anywhere

How To Be Productive Anywhere

As most of you have probably noticed, I’ve never put up a guest post on this site. I’m quite picky about the content of the blog which is why I have always preferred to write it all myself. However, the … Read more

Sick in Bed

When You’re On The Road, Sick & All Alone

For the past week I’ve been battling the flu as well as the idea that I’m currently in the midst of experiencing my first real winter in over ten years. Even as I type this post there is an actual … Read more

Bundi, India

Please Don’t Be Afraid To Travel On Your Own

You want to travel. You make a vague plan. Maybe you’ll fly to Thailand or maybe to Mexico, but either way, you’re leaving in six months time. You start saving money, you start doing research every single night and your … Read more

City in India

How To Deal With The Culture Shock Of Big Cities

Arriving in a new country, especially if it’s your first time traveling, is almost guaranteed to be an intimidating experiencing. This is even more so the case if you’re starting off in a mega-city such as Bangkok, Mexico City, Delhi … Read more

Money Clip

Cash & Plastic: A Peek Inside My Money Clip

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the method(s) I’ve used over the years to carry my money while traveling, mentioning that the money clip is generally my preferred method. However, what I failed to mention in that post is … Read more

Bats-Flying-Sydney

Air Travel Tricks I’ve Recently Learned

As travelers trying to stretch every dollar we have, it only becomes natural that we should try and find the absolute cheapest airfare we possibly can when it comes time for us to fly somewhere. As a result, I’m sure … Read more

PayPal-AwardWallet

My Recent Experiences With PayPal & Award Wallet

What do PayPal and Award Wallet have in common? Not much really, except for the fact that I’ve been dealing/working with each of these online tools quite a lot as of late. First, let me state that this is in … Read more