How to Save Money with Uber (quick and easy)
When I travel, I use Uber and other similar ride-sharing apps from time to time. The reason is convenience, ease and in most places, the ability to save money with Uber over using taxis. Let's go back to three weeks ago. I stood [...]
8-Day New Zealand Road Trip (Detailed Itinerary)
After a strange immigration experience at the Queenstown Airport, one that involved my girlfriend and I being interrogated in separate rooms about our online businesses, our 8-day New Zealand road trip finally began. Yes, New Zealand would prove to be spectacular, so much [...]
VIDEO: Saying Goodbye to My Passport
After 9.5 years, 110 pages and 319 stamps, it's time for me to renew my passport. Here's a short video I made that talks about my torn and worn out passport and why it's the stories behind the stamps that is really the [...]
A Perfect, Affordable Beach Destination – Unawatuna, Sri Lanka
I’m sorry, Sri Lanka. For many years, I chose to ignore you, to shun you, to shrug my shoulders and say “Eh” whenever you were mentioned. After a quick 3-day visit to Colombo back in 2002, I never thought about paying a visit [...]
A Quick Travel Guide to Dili, East Timor
If you’re thinking about visiting East Timor, this post is your quick travel guide to Dili and its surroundings. My goal is to provide the main information you need to start planning your trip, and all of the details below are based on [...]
What It’s Like to Travel to East Timor
As time goes on, it takes more and more for me to get excited about a destination. Yes, after 18 years of constant travel, I have seen a great deal. And just like anything we do over and over again, travel has just [...]
Thoughts from a life of travel: Day 6251 – Bali, Indonesia
It’s January. It's Monday. I'm on the island of Bali. It's my 6251st day of travel. I’m sitting here at a nice wooden table, with a ceiling fan whirling above my head and a mosquito whizzing around my left ankle. To my right [...]
VIDEO: My Visit to a Remote Village in Nepal
How could I turn down an offer to visit a remote village in Nepal? After all, I've known my friend Bhudiman for over 5 years. When I first started organizing tours to India back in 2012, I was connected to Bhudiman through a [...]