In life, many people’s main ambitions are to travel and experience new cultures. To really ensure you maximize your experience when you visit a country it’s important to communicate with the locals, the best way to do this is by learning their language, or at least learning the basics of that language. Learning a language [...]
The following is a guest post written by Alex Jimenez. When I started traveling in 2008 I had the ability to change my packing list wherever I went. As a newbie traveler I was taking group travel tours which meant that I would leave on a trip for 3-6 weeks at a time and then [...]
Creative event teaches you how to take a travel sabbatical by connecting attendees with former and current long term travelers.
This is a guest post by Hostelbookers.com Let’s assume that you want to travel and work abroad but you’re loaded down with a large student debt. There some great options out there for working abroad from working in a cheap hotel in Vancouver to being an English teacher in Shanghai. Why not consider one of [...]
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 [...]
In my inbox yesterday I saw the most recent potboiler from Groupon: two around the world tickets for $10,000* USD offered up by the Sky Team Alliance. This of course came as a surprise to me since my experience with Groupon has only been for offers of a banal assortment of spa treatments, wine tastings [...]
Inside a glittering cloud of fortune I came across the Katia and Kyliemac Podcast, which is, quite obviously, a series of podcasts hosted by Katia and Kyliemac, two young expats currently residing in Paris. It was an interview with a couple of long-term RTWers named Reed and Liz Fish, married and blissfully out there exploring [...]
There are so many things to do in the Bay of Islands of New Zealand, but if you’re not out sport fishing, a short cruise is an excellent way to see the bays and islands — and sometimes to see whales and dolphins as well; knocking off a couple of great experiences in one go. We [...]
There’s a special breed of traveler who, even as we speak, is pushing on toward new and exotic landscapes, slowly but surely assembling a life for themselves that puts travel squarely on the front burner. Our “Customers as Entrepreneurs” series spotlights former AirTreks customers who have taken their personal travel passion to the next level [...]
Matt Lauer, chrome-domed host at the Today Show and token NBC adventurer, long ago determined that the world is a marvelous place and international travel is something more people should be encouraged to do. More than a decade ago he led his viewers on his first lightning-fast around the world itinerary imploring them to guess [...]
