Category: Travel Tips
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8 Guys You’ll Meet as a Backpacker and What You Can Learn From Them
There was a time when I’d walk to Winnemucca, hula-hoop through Honduras and kayak to Kenya to find The One. Globe-trotting romances are often fleeting, but they can still enhance your own world. Whether you’re packing a bag right now or just dreaming of international budget travel, here is a sampling of men you’ll meet…
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Lift Lilt: My Eurotrip Elevator Speech
Attending networking events and meeting lots of new people lately, I’ve honed my elevator speech (lift lilt in Euro parlance, perhaps?) answering, “So what do you do?” Everyone should have an elevator speech to sum up who you are/what you do in a few sentences, in case you’re ever in a brief situation with a…
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Completing Your Bucket List When Someone Kicks the Bucket
When thinking of all the things that could go wrong on your next vacation, you might not have considered what to do if someone special at home dies while you are away. I’m here to ruin that for you by bringing up this sad, sensitive yet sensible topic. It was just after 3:30 AM, and…
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Travelers Live Vicariously Too
I’ve been noticing commentary lately about how what we share on social media is inaccurate of real life and only shows the brightest aspects of it. There are also studies, of course at this point hardly newsworthy, about how social media use affects our self-esteem. And then there are people who make snide remarks about…
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Crossing the International Date Line
My French Then-Boyfriend, Part I: How We Met What happens in France is unlikely to stay in France, in the life of a solo female traveler. It will be dragged around several more countries in a smelly, overstuffed backpack to finally burst at the seams upon a page back home. I’ve relived the story so…