Your Second Most Useful Travel Tool
There are many useful tools to help with travel. If you'd like to know what the most helpful travel tool is, read to the end. But before we get there, I'd like...
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Artificial Intelligence and Trip Planning
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is definitely here to stay. I occasionally experience brief fears of a dystopian society in which AI rules our world. (I think I’ve watched too many science...
How to Divide Expenses With a Group
The More the Merrier Traveling with others usually multiplies the fun, but if you are traveling with anyone other than your partner or your immediate family, some discussion and planning ahead of...
It’s About Time
Much of travel is about time. Obviously, it takes time to get to and from locations, and it's important that you add that time into your agenda when planning your trip. Even...
Making Travel Affordable
One of the myths of travel which contributes to people thinking that they can't take an adventure abroad is that they believe international travel is too expensive for ordinary people. Much of...
Adapter vs Converter
If you're new to traveling internationally, you may have never had to deal with an adapter or a converter. But if you're getting ready to travel abroad, this is an important topic...
Fifteen Last Minute Things to Do Before You Leave
A Little Planning Goes a Long Way For many people, the 48 hours before international travel is stress-filled and unpleasant, but this is not an inevitable state of affairs. A little planning...
How to Create a Travel Goal
Setting an attainable goal can make a huge difference when it comes to whether or not you actually achieve that goal. This is true whether you are setting career goals, fitness goals,...
How to Pack for Your Adventure
Anticipation Most of us assume that the greatest enjoyment in travel is the actual trip itself, but believe it or not, research shows that a significant percentage of the enjoyment is in...
The IKEA Effect and Travel
There is a psychological phenomenon called the "IKEA Effect" that probably should be called the "Betty Crocker Effect" given that researchers began to first pay attention to it when instant cake mixes...