The Travel Tart
The Travel Tart is all about funny, offbeat travel. From posts about the Zimbabwean dollar and weird foods to one about the European destination hardly anyone wants to visit (Kosovo), the Travel Tart will keep you entertained.
My life in Shanghai
Nick’s blog of observations and adventures in Shanghai and beyond is perceptive, well-written and complemented by photos from everyday life.
How to Find Cheap Airline Tickets (E-Book Review)
Has the economy forced you to reconsider your travel plans for 2009?
Over the past few weeks, Tammie Dooley from Solo Road Trip has shown how you can save your pennies and still have a great holiday, campground-style.
But if that doesn’t suffice – if you have an irrepressible desire to fly somewhere, near or far – take a look at Elizabeth Sanberg’s guide to finding cheap airline tickets.
Where in the World are the Kittels?!
The Kittels are family of seven living the expat life in Costa Rica. Kelly, mom, writes the blog, which provides a fascinating insight into life abroad.
Camels and Chocolate
Kristin Luna is a professional travel writer and celebrity journalist with a witty style and ardent passion for travel.
Camping 101: Campground Etiquette
A series on camping wouldn’t be complete without a discussion about etiquette. We camp to get away from it all. The problem with that yearning is that during high season, most campgrounds are crowded. So you either need to toughen up and camp during the off-season (meaning you’ll need to deal with colder weather), or learn some manners. Even for those who consider themselves a seasoned camper or outdoors person, the leap to knowing how to play well with others when your playground is a campground isn’t always a given. I assure you however that it is possible to happily co-exist in nature when the most you’ve got separating you from your neighbor is a few feet and a tent wall.
Camping 101: Knowing What to Pack
More and more baby boomers are retiring and heading back to nature after decades of material excess. We‘re no longer interested in crawling in and out of a small tent, sleeping on the ground, scrounging up a meal over a 3 inch burner, and deploying the grunge look for that week in the wilderness. But camping has an irresistible nostalgic allure, is a very affordable means of travel and unfortunately, still has many women digging in their 3-inch heels against it.
Baby boomer or not, female or male, this article is for all of you who want to camp, but can’t (or don’t want to) hack the roughing-it part.
Camping 101: Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
With fuel prices being the lowest in 4 years and vacation budgets being a non-factor in a lot of people’s minds right now, the stage is set for summer camping trips to be the boon. As our inability to spend on a foreign vacation destination is pitted against our need to have a break, we have an opportunity to rediscover the campground. Camping meets our need for frugality as well as our desire for rejuvenation.
Timothy Allen
Prepare to get jealous. Timothy Allen is a brilliant photographer getting paid by the BBC to travel the world, take photos, and blog about it.
4 Ways to Help Kids Adjust to the Realities of Life Overseas
My children officially became Third-Culture-Kids (TCKs) when they stepped off an airplane into a hot dusty Saharan night in April, 2001. The stars were obscured by sand and the wind felt like it was coming off an oven, but we were all too tired to care. My oldest was nearly 6, and the twins had just celebrated their 4th birthday. In 28 hours, including layovers, we had traversed the globe, moving from Portland, Oregon (USA) to Nouakchott, Mauritania (West Africa) with 12 suitcases and one guitar. None of our luggage showed up with us.
Although I had read myriad articles and books on raising children between cultures, nothing really prepared me for that first meal of goat head; or for how I would react to children wanting to sit next to me on the couch when it was 115 degrees out and I was sweating in places I had no idea it was possible to sweat.
