After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have spent a lot more time outside Canada than the average vacation allows. We spent about five months in Australia, months at a time in other countries, and long enough…
Picture the first 20 minutes after landing somewhere new. You’re trying to figure out where you’re going. Someone needs the hotel address. You want Google Maps. Maybe you need Uber, Grab, WhatsApp, a train schedule, or simply a way to…
When we first started traveling together almost 20 years ago, spontaneous travel could be genuinely spontaneous. We sometimes arrived in a town without a hostel or hotel booked, partly because plenty of smaller places still didn’t have online booking. We’d…
After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have slept in pretty much every kind of place you can imagine. We’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels, hostels, huts, Airbnbs and rental apartments, plus our fair share of cars,…
Belize vacation rentals can give you something a traditional hotel room often can’t: enough space to settle in and make the trip feel like your own. Depending on the property, you might have separate bedrooms, a full kitchen, private outdoor…
Travel is expensive right now. It’s sad but true. Flights, hotels, gas, food, airport snacks, checked bag fees, it all adds up fast. So when a luggage set comes in at a genuinely accessible price point and still has the…
Over the past few years, we’ve had the chance to test nearly all the BLUETTI Elite power stations from the small and portable Elite 30 V2 all the way to the suitcase sized dual wheel Elite 400. In that time…
This post is sponsored by BLUETTI. All testing, opinions, and real-world notes are our own. Portable power stations are easy to understand when we’re talking about phones, tablets, laptops, and camera batteries. Those are useful, of course. But they’re also…
This post was created in partnership with WorldTrips and features Atlas Nomad travel insurance. As always, we only work with brands we believe are genuinely useful for travelers, and all opinions expressed here are our own. There’s a version of…
Unless you don’t mind shelling out thousands of dollars if (when?) you get in an accident while travelling, having international travel insurance is definitely a good idea. Most people purchase cheap travel insurance (without knowing exactly what’s covered), or end…
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