Note: this is not a sponsored post. Just a personally recommended resource for our blog readers and savvy AirTreks customers. There were times when travelers had to do all sorts of unpleasant things to find accommodations on a multi-destination trip: flip through pamphlets, pickup telephones, actually talk to people. The horror! These days the Internet [...]
Even with the TSA hang-ups, the cattle-calls, all the other people, the act of taking a flight is not terribly hard. You show up, you wait, you fly. What is difficult though is the logistics of getting to and from the airports, navigating the miles of corridors and counters and actually finding what you’re looking [...]
If you’ve ever sat down and tried to hammer out a travel budget for countries you’ve never been to, you’ll know just how challenging this process can be. Eardex, or more evocatively, the Earth Index, to the rescue. Eardex is a tool that provides a comparative overview of costs for traveling essentials in cities, regions [...]
If you want to talk about passion for traveling, all you have to do is look at the way it manifests itself once a big trip is over, what convolutions and iterations it goes through before the travels slowly descend into the well of memory. Kelsey Odgen and Kristen Refermat, two twenty-something adventurers who rock [...]
Mustering the courage to take a big trip is a monumental task. But it does seem easier when people you know have done it before. And while veteran traveler Alexis Grant may not technically be “people you know” she does have an inside line on how to negotiate a career break, and quite possibly better [...]
This is a guest post by Noella Schink of Auto Europe. If you would like to be considered as a contributor for the AirTreks Travel Blog, click here. The following are five of my favorite travel gadgets that look cool, do cool things, always come in handy yet don’t break the bank! In fact, none [...]
When you’re butterflying around the avenues of the world sometimes accommodations fall into your lap, like teardrops from the cambered cheek of Morpheus. But most of the time you’re very much on your own when it comes to laying down your weary head. Over in the AirTreks travel store we’re showcasing a couple really great [...]
If you’ve done any research on an international travel visa as a round-the-world traveler you know how daunting a task this can be. In the end it’s your responsibility to work out exactly which countries require you to have a travel visa, which ones don’t matter and how much you’ll need to budget for the [...]
A sunny afternoon finds us on the banks of the river Spree, a meandering waterway laden with bridges, cruise boats and fabricated beachfront property. Situated roughly 160 miles from the nearest sea, landlocked Berliners have constructed their very own Riviera along the Spree, dumping tons of imported sand for beaches, erecting sun umbrellas and of [...]
