While you might never know it from my body mass, I love to eat. A lot. In fact, eating is one of my favorite activities, and also one of my favorite aspects of traveling. Food is such an integral part of so many cultures that to skip out on meals when you travel is to [...]
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How to Avoid Bank Fees While Traveling
January 13, 2011 – 11:52 am
Banking overseas is more than just putting your card in an ATM. When you travel abroad, you want to avoid paying bank fees, foreign transaction charges, and. get a good exchange rate. In fact, if you are on the road for awhile, you want to have your money work for you. Banking when you travel [...]
How to Save Money for Your World Trip
April 26, 2010 – 10:53 am
Most people never make the leap into extended travel because they don’t think they can afford it. They envision needing tens of thousands of dollars- a daunting number to save towards. I remember when I began saving for my first trip around the world. I got a rough estimate of how much money I thought [...]
How I Find the Money to Travel
April 22, 2008 – 4:47 pm
I get a lot of questions asking me how I find the money to do all this traveling. Am I rich? Do I travel for work? Am I a male gigolo? Sell drugs to little kids? Sadly, it is none of those. As I said in a previous post, desire is what motivates and keeps [...]
How I Travel So Much
April 4, 2008 – 12:33 pm
Everyone always wants to know what my secret to traveling is. How is that I travel so much and for so long. DESIRE That’s it. No secret trust fund. No illegal activity. No pimping myself out for Eliot Spitzer. I just focus on doing it. After my first trip to Costa Rica in 2004, I [...]