Surviving the flight is the first step in many travel adventures. Do it right by packing the essentials you need.
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Top Ten Carry-On Packing Essentials
Category Archives: Trip Planning Help & How-To’s
Plan a Girls’ Trip
What’s even better than a girls’ night out? A girls’ trip! Longer and more intense, filled with new experiences and different perspectives, a girls’ trip can reinvigorate your life and those of your friends with an injection of fun, frivolity and fearlessness. When planning a group vacation, someone will usually take the lead and be the main hotel booker, activities arranger and tour persuader. Since you are reading this article, chances are that person is you. Even if you have never so much as road tripped to the beach, you can plan a girls’ trip that will be memorable, rejuvenating and relaxing. Continue reading
Shilo’s Cities: Sydney in a Week
Sydney is a cosmopolitan city on the edge of the Australian world, on the scale of New York or Paris but with a big and beautiful harbor, a fun-loving population, and beaches with shades of blue you never thought possible. The adventure that is Sydney could never be “done” in a week or even a lifetime, but if you have a few days to get a taste of the energetic Aussie metropolis, these are my suggestions. Continue reading
Culture Shock: USA
Visiting the land of free refills? Bone up on American culture so you won’t be shocked.
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Camping Survival 101
Summertime always goes hand in hand with the great outdoors, especially when many Americans have taken an economical hit and are choosing tent city instead of New York City for their seasonal excursions. Some of us run to the mountains and forests in delight, while others- not so much. If you are a self-declared “non-outdoorsy” type who has found herself along for the ride to a camping extravaganza, knowing a few things about gear and grime will help you to not only survive the camping experience, but to have a great time as well. Continue reading
QUIZ: What Is Your Adventure Style?
(Big Sur, California)
Do you dream of wilding a mountain river, or exploring a strange new city on your own? Are you a romantic in love with the unknown or a dabbler in adventure? Discover your travel adventure style.
Choose the answer(s) that best fit your response to each question. Continue reading
Eat Cheap in Europe
<Not Eating Cheap in Prague>
With the dollar in the gutter, fuel prices on the rise, and airlines charging for everything from snacks to blankets, travelers are more than ever looking for some way to defer the cost of their trip. One easy way to do this is simplify the way you eat when you roam; at home you don’t go out to restaurants for three meals a day, so why would you do this when you are traveling? It’s easy to eat cheap, and you don’t even have to skimp on protein, vitamins, or nutrients. These are my favorite low-cost travel foods; stock up at the biggest grocery store you can find and have breakfast in bed, lunch on the train, and dinner on the side of a mountain. Continue reading
Ten Tricks for Packing Light
Once you go light, you never go back. Convert to packing light and let yourself be footloose and fancy-free.
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Cruise through LAX when you pack light
Shilo’s Packing Essentials
Every traveler should define what essentials they need on the road.
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Which scarf? Oh just take them all…
Top Ten Road Trip Travel Tips
Hit the road, not each other…
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Tip #1: Don’t deliver any radioactive materials
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