How to Travel with Friends

Managing expectations to create adventures together.

Traveling with friends can be extremely fun! It can also be stressful, which causes tension. There’s no way to totally eliminate those stressful moments, but I do have…

How to Travel Alone Successfully

Don’t be afraid.

I firmly believe you should never be deterred from traveling just because no one you know can go with you. So here are my tips for traveling alone, or How I Ended Up in Lisbon.

Five Favorite Travel Apps

Technology and travel, hand in hand.

There are a multitude of travel services, sites, and apps out there. In this post, I focus on apps which can be utilized best while you’re on the move. Here are the five I find the most useful when…

Five Questions to Ask When Planning Your Next Trip

The answers will help you pick your next destination quickly and easily.

If you have limited time to travel like I do, you want to make your trip fit your idea of…

Why You Should Start Traveling Today

Chances are if you’re reading this then you’re interested in traveling. And not traveling when…

A Reflection on Cross Cultural Dating

Subconscious cultural influence on dating.

Language barrier wasn’t an issue, we both stumbled through each other’s native tongues, you obviously more fluent than I. My incessant stream of questions didn’t seem…

Why am I running away?

And from what?

The truth is, I’m scared. Scared of living only a “normal” life full of mundane moments. Scared of shuffling through the motions of living, never feeling fulfilled and waking up one morning to realize I’m miserable. Scared of feeling…

Five Ways to Share Your Trip More Productively 

After you come back from traveling, everyone wants to hear about it and see the photos! Here are five ways you can share that information more efficiently, saving you time while staying connected.

1. Decide the number of…

 What to do when your trip plans change

Go with the flow!

Sometimes plans change unexpectedly. Your tour gets cancelled, or the place you wanted to eat at is closed, or the weather isn’t right for a hike. When this happens, you have two choices: have your day…

Get off the beaten path

Take a risk.

Most any place you go, there’s always at least one “touristy” spot. The Colosseum in Rome, the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The examples are endless, but the a key idea to remember is that sometimes the best…