Do Solo Female Travellers have it Easier than Guys Travelling Alone?
It niggled at me in Morocco. It snapped at me in Hungary. It tore chunks out of me in Iran and by the time China came along I’d given up on noticing how solo women travelers seem to get away with more than solo men. But, having spent so much time in the Philippines traveling solo, it reared its head again when I bumped into Jodi, another solo traveler in the Philippines.
The Travel Expert(a)
Marina Villatoro is a passionate traveller-turned-expat who just moved to Guatemala with her husband and son, after living the expat life in Costa Rica.
Long Way Home
After living in South Africa for the last two years, Rob and Pol have decided to cycle all the way home to Wales, while raising funds for charity.
How to Make Money with Your Travel Blog (e-book review)
You’re jaded. You started a travel blog, put a few ads on it, and hoped it would subsidize your travels. Three months and three dollars of Google Adsense income later, you’re ready to pull the plug.
Making money through a travel blog is hard, but it’s not impossible. It takes time, work and a little bit of know-how.
To help you out with that last point, Nomadic Matt has just released an ebook about making money with your travel blog. I have just read it from cover to cover (so to speak) and can safely say that Matt’s ebook can help you unpack the mysteries of travel blogging for money. And Matt’s a guy worth listening to: his travel blogs earn him $3,000 a month – a handy sum when you’re a guy travelling perpetually.
5 Ways to Take Photos that Truly Capture Your Journey
Taking beautiful photographs in exotic, far-flung locales is a surprisingly easy thing to do, once you’re there. But really showing a place—its ins and outs, its people and its surroundings—is a much more difficult pursuit. It’s easy to become overwhelmed, to find yourself walking around wide-eyed, your camera still lost somewhere at the bottom of your bag; or, conversely, snapping off rapid fire shots of anything that moves (and many things that don’t), only to find when you return home that you haven’t captured anything meaningful or worthwhile from your journey. A pretty landscape is one thing, but a collection of images that work well together and truly show a place will have people coming back to view them over and over again. Below are five things I try to do before, during and after any trip; I’ve found they help me get the most out of my photographs.
Hoboxia
Hoboxia is the blog of Chris Fink, a writer driving around the United States while he completes his novel. Along for the ride is Solomon, his cat.
Legal Nomads
Jodi Ettenberg is a former corporate lawyer out to prove that lawyers can have fun. Since April 2008 she has been travelling through South America, Africa and Asia.
Summer Family Road Trips
This could be the year of the family road trip. The summer of 2009 may go down in history as the summer we rediscovered the open road as the solution for the conflicting need of a much needed break coupled with the lack of ability to spend on a foreign vacation destination; the need for frugality versus the promise of rejuvenation. With fuel prices being the lowest in 4 years, and vacation budgets being a non-factor in a lot of Americans minds right now, the stage is set for summer family road trips to be the boon.
Since we’ve covered thoughts and tips on solo road trips, let’s talk about ways to extend the initial promise of the nostalgic memories that Dads everywhere seem to dreamily envision as they herd the brood into the family sedan for a view of roadside Americana.
Wild Junket
Nellie Huang describes herself as an atypical Asian with an insatiable thirst for travel. Wild Junket is the personal hub where she writes about all her travel adventures.
18 Things You Don’t Need on Your Packing List
Over the limit? Need to shed a few pounds or fork out cash for going over your weight allowance? This inverted packing list – it tells you what you don’t need – will help you figure out how you can lighten the load.
