With Autumn just around the corner, the optimal time to travel is now. The season of cool temperatures and warm colors creates some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world, sans the large crowds and costly hotel rates. Here are just a few destinations you should consider to take advantage of the year’s most travel-friendly months.… Read more →
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Staying Healthy When You Travel
By now, you’ve probably heard some of the disgusting facts regarding where germs live and breathe around us. While eating off of your toilet seat might seem like one of the most disgusting things you could imagine, analyses have shown that common household items like your doorknob, your faucets, your carpet and your cutting boards all could harbor far,… Read more →
Habits of Avid Travelers
I’ve gone over the benefits of being a traveler. I’ve gone over business travel and how to make your stay at a hotel more pleasant and homey. What I have not covered, until this point, are the habits of a regular traveler. The things, whether they’re small or large, that those with wanderlust do in their day-to-day lives that… Read more →
The Benefits of Regular Travel
Although it may not seem like it at first, and you may be inclined to disagree, there is a difference between traveling and vacationing. Traveling should be a journey. There may or may not be a “purpose” to it–but that doesn’t matter. When you’re traveling, you see sights, experience a culture, try new food, and immerse yourself in the… Read more →
The Advantages & Disadvantages of Modes of Travel
In 2003, it was reported by the Bureau of Transportation statistics that almost one fifth of United States adults had never flown on a commercial airplane. That’s right–about 18 percent of adults who lived in the nation that contained about 20,000 airports at that time had never purchased a ticket and boarded a plane to experience the miracle of… Read more →
Four Summer Vacation Destinations
With the first official day of summer about a month in the rearview mirror, the window of opportunity for a nice, relaxing vacation may be growing smaller and smaller. The Earth is a fairly large planet, roughly 197 million square miles in surface area total; subtracting the 140 or so million square miles of ocean leaves us travelers about… Read more →
Five of the Best Learning Experiences Around Boston
With the weather warming around the country, more and more people are using up their valuable vacation days at work to take cross-country (or cross-Earth) trips. For those of us who can’t stand to be away from work but still want to travel, weekend trips are the go-to move. Having lived in Boston for quite some time now, I’ve… Read more →
Better Business Travel
Unfortunately for me and many, many of you, travel isn’t always fun and games. Yes, exploring the world, experiencing the culture and the food (or both at the same time) of a new country can be an enlightening and awe-inspiring experience. So while not all travel is for pleasure, it is possible to take a business plan ride and… Read more →
Six Pieces of Travel Tech You Shouldn’t Miss
Technology, as it continues to expand, has begun push its influence into nearly every facet of our lives, from the way we communicate to the way we diagnose illness. Travelers aren’t being left behind, either. With the continuously advancing technological world and an expansive list of developers, designers and geniuses in the world who are focused on redefining… Read more →
Experiencing a Culture Through Food
If you’re anything like most of the habitual travelers around the world, you likely have a few things planned out before you decide to embark on a cross-country (or cross-planet) expedition. You figure out where you’re going to stay for the duration of the trip. You plan out–to the minute sometimes–what you’ll be doing, where you’ll be going and… Read more →