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Traveling with Groups: How to Keep Your Sanity and Avoid Mutiny
Traveling with a large group of people can be an amazing experience or a series of mishaps and frustrations until you can’t wait to leave. Travel is supposed to be fun, so make it fun. Here are some suggestions for avoiding and dealing with problems as they arise.
Traveling with Wet Clothes: Common Solutions for a Common Problem
If you’re an avid backpacker, you don’t let the rain stop you. Snow Storm? So What. Hail? Whatever. Your clothes get wet frequently, be it from sweat, rain, or showering with them on. We’ve all been in this position and have to decide what to do. Below I will offer some of my suggestions to keep your clothes dry and you happy.
One Piece of Gear No Traveler Should Ever Forget
Avid backpacker? Extended traveler? Luxury traveler? No matter which, this one piece of gear comes in handy. It’s small, lightweight, cost under $15 and you’ll use it daily. Once you have one, you’ll never travel without it. You’ll even begin using it at home because it’s so practical, so easy to use, and takes up so little space.
Five Things the Guidebooks Didn’t Tell You About the Inca Trail
An illustrated guide to a successful, life changing journey to Macchu Picchu.
Greek Odyssey
Opting for early retirement meant that our work/life balance was about to change. Why not take a year to travel – a gap-year in middle age?
Solo Backpacking Tips
Be safe when you go hiking and backpacking by yourself. Follow these simple tips.
Experience Metro Manila for Less (or Even Free!)
The backpacker’s and city dweller’s guide to the Philippines’ capital city on a shoestring that’s worth every sweat and peso.

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