Loading ...There are some things you can live with and others you can live without. Seasoned travelers learn to live without, and when they do they often find hospitable people that let them live with. Travelers have the burden of deciding what to take with them and what to leave behind. They carry […]
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Travel Lesson #4: Budget Your Money
April 11, 2008 - 9:30 am
Four months ago, I traveled to Colombia with an expired ATM card. Although I had planned my trip, considering where I would go, for how long, and how much I would spend, I just didn’t bother to look at my card’s expiration date.
With just a hundred bucks on me, I managed to get money […]
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Comments (0) Travel Lesson #3: Choose Travel Companions Wisely
April 6, 2008 - 1:00 pm
I’ve had my share of eccentric travel companions, but none can top my alcoholic ex-boyfriend. On our trip to Italy, his antics epitomized the disgusting reasons why we are called Ugly Americans. The list below clearly catalogs ten reasons I now choose my travel companions wisely.
Our trip to Italy began as most do: pleasantly, […]
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Comments (2) Travel Lesson #2: Be Creative
April 2, 2008 - 9:30 am
I’m a girl with a mission. For over a year now, I have been traveling the globe in search of truth. Along the way I am discovering myself. Here is one tale from the road, of which there will be many forthcoming…
I’m a travel writer, so I don’t have a […]
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Comments (1) Travel Lesson #1: Break Free
March 23, 2008 - 11:30 am
I’m a girl with a mission. For over a year now, I have been traveling the globe in search of truth. Along the way I am discovering myself. Here is one tale from the road, of which there will be many forthcoming…
A few summers ago, I spent three weeks traveling […]
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Comments (2) Spring for Break the Right Way
March 8, 2008 - 11:30 am
Pumped for Spring Break? Tell me about it! But please — PLEASE — don’t become the next “Girls Gone Wild” victim. Here are a few quick tips to keep your shirt on. It is possible to have fun and be safe and responsible at the same time.
BEFORE YOU GO:
Don’t forget your […]
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Comments (0) Spring Break Hot Spot: Colombia — Just Kidding!
March 7, 2008 - 2:30 pm
As the rest of you are sunning yourselves on some beach in Mexico, I will be heading down to Colombia to write for a travel guidebook for six weeks. “You’re not serious,” you might be saying to me. “What with all the political crises going on?” And I reply simply, “For those […]
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Comments (6) Fall in Love with “Sex and the City” All Over Again!
March 3, 2008 - 5:30 pm
The four unique protagonists in HBO’s “Sex and the City” didn’t just open their lives to us. They represented an entire generation of women whom we turned to for comfort, advice, and entertainment.
Some part of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte exists in each of us and, when the show ended, we said goodbye to […]
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