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Making the travel process easier to help you start traveling sooner!
It’s not uncommon for people to dodge Airbnb’s because they are worried about what it’s like to stay at someone else’s place. Here is a guide that’ll help you pick a great Airbnb at a great price - without having to worry about problems. Piece of mind goes a long way!
Landing a great deal on a flight shouldn’t be complicated. Here, we share the top 5 ways to score a deal on a flight in 2023 and an additional 10 ways to help you save on those flights as well.
Before you head off on a trip, it's best to make sure you've packed and prepared well. Here are the best bags and luggage to consider bringing with you.
After nearly two years of traveling, here is our top picks for the most essential travel electronics. Sure, we travel with a few more, but this list is your essential guide to keeping your bag light and not packed to the brim.
Nomads, Digital Nomads, Travelers, Wanderers, Adventurers, Explorers. Whatever the label is, we’ve been traveling non-stop since March 2018. If you’d like to learn how to travel forever too, check out our FREE Nomad Guide! A few months into traveling, we discovered that we would be expecting a baby in early 2019. A few months before the baby’s arrival, we started researching the BEST baby nomad gear. Our plan is to continue our travels with our baby nomad in tow and…
Can I travel to Egypt while pregnant? How to take a babymoon in Egypt - tips on traveling while pregnant.
Headed to Ireland, Jamaica, or Israel and planning to rent a car? You NEED to have a . . .
Technology makes travel so much easier than before! Here are the apps we use to help plan our adventures, and keep us connected while we're on the road.
The passport got lost in the mail and they wouldn’t send another one because they wanted to keep waiting to see if it would arrive. Here’s how we had to get around that so I could finally get my passport.
The most common obstacles
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How to Save Money to Travel
Do you want to travel but find it difficult to save up enough money to go? This section is the best place to start! Including the best ways to make your trip more affordable, actual travel budgets that we had during our trips, and other tricks to help you save up before you head off on your next adventure!
How to Find Time to Travel
Do you want to travel but cannot seem to find any available time to go? This section is the best place to start! Including the best ways to find time to travel as a caregiver - for children, parents, and pets, finding time off from work - even when you can't seem to afford it, when no friends seem to be able to join you, or even when things never seem to slow down enough to allow for travel time!
How to Make Travel Planning Simple
Do you want to travel but find that you keep getting stuck on the planning process and never actually go? This section is the best place to start! Including the easiest places to go to piece together your trip, actual itineraries that we used during our trips, and other helpful tips and apps that will make your planning process much more simple!
How to Travel with kids
Did people tell you to travel before you had children and now you understand why? This section is the best place to start! Including great tips on how to travel while pregnant, with babies, infants, toddlers, children, and even teenagers. We even have a section in here that covers all of the travel essentials for parents!
Articles that will help you travel
We think on occasion that it would be easier to go back home, get a regular job, and just relax… but, when we really think about it, we would need to buy a car to get around, we’d need to lock ourselves down into a year-long lease or buy a house, we wouldn’t get to spend so much time with our kids, etc. It really would be hard to transition back at this point… especially now that we know that it’s so cheap to live the traveling lifestyle (for us it’s been between $2,000 to $2,500 per month as an entire family - all expenses included) - so much cheaper than if we were to stay in the United States. Once you get used to it you may never want to give it up!
Let's not pretend that flying with a little one is easy… It's not. But it’s definitely doable. Before our son was 1 year old, he had already traveled on over a dozen flights. It can be done, and it doesn't have to be impossible with a newborn or an infant. But this story isn't about flying with an infant OR a toddler. It's about flying with an infant AND a toddler, at the same time.
Planning to travel with elderly parents? Here are some tips to help: Go for a virtual spin first, Pack appropriately, Confirm Accommodations, and many more! Bonus: Learn about Ancestry Travel.
When you’re planning to leave a senior loved one at home during your travels, consider these 4 essential tips before you leave home!
Travel will likely return to normal once 60-90 percent of the world is vaccinated. Learn why here.
Planning to have a baby abroad in Malaysia? Here’s everything you need to know from prenatal visits to birth to getting the birth certificate and passport.
It’s not uncommon for people to dodge Airbnb’s because they are worried about what it’s like to stay at someone else’s place. Here is a guide that’ll help you pick a great Airbnb at a great price - without having to worry about problems. Piece of mind goes a long way!
Have you had to cancel or postpone a vacation? It’s a bummer, we know. But here are 5 steps to help you still have a good time! Don’t miss #3!
If you’re traveling these days, the Novel Coronavirus is likely on your mind. Here, we share all of the current information to help you decide if you should cancel your travel plans or just be mindful when you travel.
How to fly with a newborn baby. Learn how to plan, pack, and fly with a newborn. Don’t miss the important things to consider when flying with a baby!
Tracing your roots and traveling to the countries that your ancestors came from is becoming a more and more common way to choose travel destinations these days. Here are a few reasons why it may be more important to learn about your DNA before you travel and what type of impact that can have on the world as a whole.
Landing a great deal on a flight shouldn’t be complicated. Here, we share the top 5 ways to score a deal on a flight in 2023 and an additional 10 ways to help you save on those flights as well.
Before you head off on a trip, it's best to make sure you've packed and prepared well. Here are the best bags and luggage to consider bringing with you.
After nearly two years of traveling, here is our top picks for the most essential travel electronics. Sure, we travel with a few more, but this list is your essential guide to keeping your bag light and not packed to the brim.
One giant piece of advice comes from someone with quite a bit more experience traveling than us, Nicky Kobly, who shared their advice to us and a number of other people on December 12th of 2018. It is such amazing advice that we didn't want it to get buried or forgotten about, so we are sharing it here to…
Traveling with a baby to Thailand? Here is the ultimate baby packing list! You can also use this list for any hot and humid destination!
When we first learned that we were pregnant, less than 2 months into our multi-year travels around the world, we had two options: 1) end our travels early and return home or 2) have our baby while we were traveling.
Returning home would end our travels because, as full time travelers, we are exempt from paying for the mandatory U.S. medical insurance required by the Affordable Care Act - as long as we are outside of the country for at least 330 days out of the year. If we were to return, we would not only have to pay for our airfare (roughly $1,250 each from where we would be when we needed to return), but we would also have to back-pay for that medical insurance as we would no longer be exempt. The penalty is either…
Nomads, Digital Nomads, Travelers, Wanderers, Adventurers, Explorers. Whatever the label is, we’ve been traveling non-stop since March 2018. If you’d like to learn how to travel forever too, check out our FREE Nomad Guide! A few months into traveling, we discovered that we would be expecting a baby in early 2019. A few months before the baby’s arrival, we started researching the BEST baby nomad gear. Our plan is to continue our travels with our baby nomad in tow and…
Can I travel to Egypt while pregnant? How to take a babymoon in Egypt - tips on traveling while pregnant.
I’ve seen roundabouts in the United States. They aren’t all that common, but you come across them from time to time. Compared to other countries that we’ve been to, . . .
Headed to Ireland, Jamaica, or Israel and planning to rent a car? You NEED to have a . . .
Technology makes travel so much easier than before! Here are the apps we use to help plan our adventures, and keep us connected while we're on the road.
American vs. European homes. Here are 5 differences we've noticed that you might not have known about.
Packing for a trip around the world? Planning to travel forever? Where do you even start? Here are some of the things we did that helped us.
We think on occasion that it would be easier to go back home, get a regular job, and just relax… but, when we really think about it, we would need to buy a car to get around, we’d need to lock ourselves down into a year-long lease or buy a house, we wouldn’t get to spend so much time with our kids, etc. It really would be hard to transition back at this point… especially now that we know that it’s so cheap to live the traveling lifestyle (for us it’s been between $2,000 to $2,500 per month as an entire family - all expenses included) - so much cheaper than if we were to stay in the United States. Once you get used to it you may never want to give it up!