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 [...]
Last month, revered travel oracle Lonely Planet released their “Best in Travel” top-10 list, the highly-regarded once-a-year destination throwdown. This list is widely considered to be the most influential compilation of places to visit at a given moment, taking into account things like beauty, price, and favorable economic, political and social conditions as reasons to [...]
Deciding where you go on your big adventure is probably the most difficult part of the planning process. It’s like washing your clothes – if you want clean clothes you have to do a little labor. Last year I wrote a post giving AirTrekkers 5 very sensible options for a trip around the world bearing [...]
If you’ve been paying any attention to any world news recently you’ve probably seen a list of Middle East and North African countries appearing next to words like violence, tear-gas and “security forces intervened”. There’s a political moment of truth going on and while it’s exciting to see in our time, it may be throwing [...]
