On The Road Again

I’m not even going to sugar coat this in any way; three days ago I had an accident abroad when I was in a horrific accident in Cambodia when my bus did a 360 sideways roll off the road and down a small hill. No one died thank God, but there were definitely injuries, including two that required surgeries, one emergency stitches (that I watched and coached her through), and my concussion. Not to mention the post-traumatic-stress we all surely have from being tossed around like we were clothes in a laundry machine. After helping each other out of the bus, and finally making it to the hospital, all of our first questions were; “How much is it going to cost me? Is my travel insurance going to cover this?” This wasn’t my first rodeo with an accident abroad, so I knew there was a chance some people’s insurance would not cover the hospital bill…including mine. In fact I had an immediate flashback to the last time I was in a car accident; in Patagonia, whe...

It has taken me a while to actually create this Travel Planning  form for your important trip details, because I usually just scribble my own details in a notebook. BUT, this is everything that I usually try to find out BEFORE my trips, and now it’s in an organized little form-thing for anyone who would like to print it out and fill in their own details! Please feel free to print as many of these as you’d like, and if you find them helpful, I’d really appreciate it if you’d share them with your fellow travel friends! Also! If you happen to print and use one, and take a photo with it wherever your travels take you, I’ll post it here on this post! Adventure awaits my friends, go get it! (To print: Drag image to your desktop, or right click to save, then open it up and print!)     And a blue one for the guys (or girls who like blue lol)  😉  

by Alyssa Ramos After traveling to 6 continents and almost 30 countries, I’ve had my fair share of travel mistakes and fails, and witnessed even more of them. Luckily, that means I can compile these mistakes into a list to help other travelers avoid my same misfortunes. You’re welcome. Jump To: 1. Not Researching Best LOCAL Areas to Stay In 2. Not Researching What to Wear 3. Not Considering Climate/Hemisphere Changes 4. Not Looking Up Current News Affairs 5. Not Bringing Multiple Forms of Money 6. Not Making Copies of Your Passport 7. Not Picking Your Seat Early on Your Flight 8. Not Knowing Money Conversions 9. Not Changing Your Phone Plan 10. Not Bringing Multiple Adaptors 11. Not Knowing How To Appropriately Greet People 12. Not Being Considerate of the Culture Differences 13. Not Having Common Sense About Safety 14. Spending Too Much Time on Social Media 15. Spending Too Much Time in The Hotel Room 16. Traveling With Someone You Butt Heads With 17. Getting So Drun...

I have a secret! 😀 Well, it’s not really secret, it’s more like me being really good at tweaking the internet as much as I can to get a good travel deal. But I’ve finally decided to write out how to use my awesome trick for how I get the cheapest flights, so that you can use it to not only get cheap flights too, but get an idea of where to go! I call it “Not Being Picky”! But for technical purposes, I’ll call it the “Worldwide Search”, and it always puts a smile on my face to search “worldwide” instead of a specific destination and date. That’s right, I don’t put any information in the search fields except the airport I want to leave from, and sometimes I don’t even use that since I know other airports are cheaper to fly out of! Confused yet? I don’t blame you, so here’s my step by step guide (or see my VIDEO TUTORIAL below) on how to use the Worldwide Search trick to find the cheapest flights...