When traveling on around the world plane tickets some things are a given: accruing frequent flier miles, lower back pain, and stopovers at airports. Since all long flights can’t be non-stop flights, you’ll need to connect somewhere. The trick is make your stopover work for you, not against you. I’ve compiled a list of options [...]
Around the world travel is a wonderful way to learn about the world in which you live, but it can also be a complicated beast. One of the potential messes prevalent in multi-stop travel comes in the form of the “onward ticket“. For those attempting to book your flights as you travel, be warned: failing [...]
Because you’ve done enough research on your big around the world trip to fill a medium-sized gymnasium and because you’ve already done a good deal of traveling in your life (an around the world trip is usually “the next step” in a travel obsession) you’ve found yourself questioning the worthiness of so-called beaten path destinations, [...]
Trying to hash out a big around the world trip is serious business. One Google search reveals pages upon pages with which to research, plan and pull your hair out. If you’re looking to simply nail down a travel budget, to just get a get price for your around the world ticket, right now, there [...]
It’s easy to equate traveling around the world with following a series of connect-the-dots points on a map, and not necessarily with overland travel. This assumption is obvious since it’s the cities that, after all, have the airports. But the problem is that by flying from city to city you miss out on some of [...]
This is a guest post by Janice Waugh. From India to Chile to Spain… I have met many RTW travelers on the road and, interestingly, almost half were solo traveling. Here are a few reasons why someone would choose to travel solo: friends hadn’t the same desire for such travel partners hadn’t been able to [...]
When you book round-the-world tickets you want your travel experience to go smoothly. After all, you can look back on stressful moments on the road and laugh, but there’s no reason why you should have to. Here are my best 15 suggestions to get the RTW trip of a lifetime while limiting the problems ahead [...]
It may be hard to accept that with the recent proliferation of travel planning websites it’s actually become more difficult to find a good one, but it stands to reason the more choices one has, the harder it is to choose between them. When it comes to RTW travel planning, yes, there are hundreds of [...]
Creative event teaches you how to take a travel sabbatical by connecting attendees with former and current long term travelers.
For all the unwavering optimism there’s no denying it’s still tough out there for our finances. Even your humble AirTreks Travel Blogger makes do with non-brand name ketchup. But tight travel budgets never dissuade those of us who pine to put round the world tickets in our pockets. Why would it? Last year I wrote [...]
