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Stuck in the suburbs? Don’t fret. The best adventures are in front of you. Thanks to weddings, extended family visits, and perhaps even a business trip you were (not so) lucky to land, you’re bound to be headed to suburbia sooner or later. But just because you’re far from the big city you wish you…
Boarding an aircraft, getting locked into a small aerodynamic tube, sitting beside a complete stranger for a long duration, and not to mention, putting your life in someone else’s hands, can be a highly stressful situation. But flying, like many other things we do that scare us, is a fear we conquer time after time…
“I can’t believe you aren’t going to talk for 10 days. I would go crazy.” That was the response I got from roughly 95 percent of people whom I told I was going on my first (and only, thus far) 10-day silent meditation retreat. It’s also basically what I had said to my boyfriend when…
Traveling is typically reserved for those precious two weeks the average American worker gets off each year. We slave away at our desks all day, every day for a few moments of pleasure at the beach or another exotic destination. But, what if your job was to travel? Amazingly, some people have the type of…
In Costa Rica, even rain storms can be beautiful. (Photo courtesy of Dan Farrelly) Before I moved to Costa Rica, I thought I knew rain. I had traveled to the Caribbean, read about monsoons, and survived my fair share of summer thunderstorms. You know the kind — the ones that, as a kid, make you…
Photo Credit: GoToVan, Flickr In February 2016, a Megabus traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee exploded. A fire spread from the wheel well to the engine, engulfing the coach in a tunnel of smoke and flames. In May 2015, a Bolt Bus rolling from New York City to Boston caught on fire and the windows shattered;…
We travel to relax, explore, and experience the beauty of the world. Except the world isn’t always beautiful and traveling isn’t always “relaxing,” to say the least. What would it take for you to stop traveling? A mugging, kidnapping, or say, bombs? I’ve traveled extensively for the last eight years, sometimes with friends and sometimes…
Photo by Yahoo Finance Canada via Flickr Considering longer-than-long security lines, baggage check fees, and prickly customer service, it can be hard to imagine that people once looked forward to flying. But in the early 60s, catching a big metal bird was a romantic notion that few people, outside of the wealthy or business-minded, actually…
Photo Credit: Rashi Kalra, Flickr Many people have a preconceived idea about the “typical” solo traveler. He’s young (usually in his 20s or early 30s), Western (from Australia, North America, or Europe), and he’s male. And while there are plenty of young Western men hitting the road on their own, today’s typical solo traveler isn’t…
Going on a safari in Tanzania was an experience unlike any other. I traveled to the African country in December for my honeymoon and was immediately struck by the scenery when I first awoke in Arusha. From that moment forward, the trip just got more and more fascinating as we ventured to Lake Manyara, the…