Tag: Advice
2011 Gift Guide for Round-The-World Travellers
It’s starting to look a lot like—well, you know — a time for many fun holiday-season traditions. And one of the most traditional of all is our annual Holiday Gift Guide, now in its second year.
5 Ways to Enrich Your RTW Journey
Check out five simple suggestions that we’ve collected from our favourite bloggers that we feel will enhance your round-the-world journey—providing it with greater depth.
A RTW trip in three months or less?
Is it possible to do a round-the-world (RTW) trip in three months or less? Jules Verne thought so. But does that make it a good idea?
Go Around the World in your Gap Year
If you have just finished school, or you are just about to, and the idea of planning a round-the-world trip appeals to you, here a few of the important steps you need to take along the way to open up a world of opportunity and travelling enjoyment.
Packing Tips for Excursions Near and Far
Packing sensibly can make for a more comfortable and trouble-free journey. Guest blogger Bradley Fink weighs in with the key to easy travel!
Hackpacking: Using Poste Restante or General Delivery
Poste Restante (dubbed ‘General Delivery in the US’ and ‘Lista de Correos’ in South America) is a service whereby the post office holds mail until the recipient picks it up.
How to Save on Airfare for a RTW Trip
Let’s face it, a true round-the-world (RTW) trip demands a budget of $20,000 or more—a figure that not many people can save effectively in a short span of time
Hackpacking: Grapefruit Seed Extract
Travellers gastro, or diarrhoea, is the most common ailment of backpackers travelling abroad. But in the last few years, a new weapon has been emerged in its prevention and treatment—grapefruit seed extract.
Great Gift Ideas for the Round-The-World Traveller
The holiday season is right around the corner, and we figured it’s time to start coming up with some useful, thoughtful and hopefully interesting gift ideas for the traveller (or travellers) in your life.
Hackpacking: Vodka’s many uses
When faced with a lack of laundry facilities—or a prohibitively expensive laundry service—Kathryn and I have learned to do what many backpackers have before us…
A Checklist for Planning and Preparing for Your RTW Trip
We’ve drawn together this ever-evolving pre-departure checklist from a number of sources around the web and in print and are sharing it with our readers.
Managing day-to-day spending on the road
ATM use is much more practical and, in our opinion, the way to go. In order to manage your budget—and for added security—we recommend using a two-account system.
Six Books To Help Plan Your RTW Adventure
Here is a small and very carefully chosen selection of what Kathryn and I consider to be the “best of the best” when it comes to helping you plan your round-the-world trip.
East vs West: Which is Best for Your RTW?
In our opinion, there is no right or wrong direction—it all depends on factors such as where you start, the time of year, speed of travel, money, weather, routing and most importantly, personal preference.
A Few Common Phrases to Avoid in Hostels
We know this article comes off a little cynical and we know we’re being a bit—well, smarmy. But these questions tend to irk us after a while!
End of the Road: Where are they now?
The bend in the road is not the end of the road—unless you refuse to take the turn!
Tips for Dealing with Touts
As soon as you step outside the airport in any given destination, a crowd of people will approach: tuk tuk and auto rickshaw drivers, taxi drivers, hotel touts and beggars all want a little bit of your coin.
How to Stay Motivated to Travel
We thought we’d share with you a few of the methods we use to get and stay motivated while waiting for the long term payoff for all the sacrifices we’re making to travel around the world.
How to Play it Safe in an Internet Café
Bottom line—how significant is the risk, really? The answer to that is: “It depends”.
Adapting to Change on the Road
The backpacker must readily and easily be able to make quick decisions in response to changeable events and unexpected circumstances.
