The Top 4 Things Study Abroad Taught Me (Sometimes the Hard Way) Studying abroad in Italy was everything you’d imagine it would be— delicious food, stunning architecture, incredible art and culture– basically a picture perfect four months. It was in the moments where...
Darek and Ilona Take the World: Bear Sighting in the Adirondacks! Just when we thought that they couldn't get any cooler, our favorite traveling couple does it again -- this time in the Adirondacks. Not only are they mountain skiers, city trekkers, safari voyagers and...
Catch Up with Our Most Popular July Travel Stories! Already this month, we've put out some posts that we think are pretty cool. Whether we're showing you what's going on for Bastille Day, finding the top lost cities that you've got to see, or showcasing the...
15 Wacky Superstitions Around The World We all have those wacky things that we think twice about: making sure not to walk under a ladder, spilling salt then tossing it over our left shoulder, changing shirts when our team is tied with a minute left...
Don’t Take My Word For It: A Travel Series I am twenty years old and on a nine-hour train ride from Munich to Amsterdam. I'm uncomfortably trying to settle in for the night in my second class economy seat that refuses to recline. "Want a...
Darek & Ilona Take The World: Walking Around In San Francisco! They're back and at it again! Our favorite traveling couple, Darek and Ilona, haven't been slowing down. With a trip planned at least every month, they're perfecting the art of quick weekend getaways while...
Millennials Aren’t Traveling Like You Millennials aren’t traveling like you. Gone are the days of travel agents, posed pictures with cheesy smiles, and the sun, sand, and souvenirs culture. This generation of twenty-and-thirtysomethings are...
Don’t Take My Word For It: A Travel Series For The Constant Wanderer It is eight o’clock in the morning on September the twenty fourth. Florentine traffic pounds by outside of the open hostel window. The room is musty, the smell of mold so faint that I wonder if I’m...
Voluntourism: Good Or Bad? Voluntourism, or the act of traveling to a foreign country to do charitable volunteer work is on the rise, and one of the fastest growing travel trends today. This $2 billion a year industry involves 1.6...
I Travel To… Run In A Marathon As part of our #ReasonToTravel social media campaign, we jogged through our most memorable travel moments and realized many of those unforgettable travel experiences come through participating in some event or...
The 10 Life Lessons I Learned from Volunteer Vacationing I love to travel, but I grew tired of the same "stay in a hotel, eat at a tourist trap restaurant" routine. After traveling to dozens of countries as a regular tourist, I found that my experience was getting...
Just Go It’s 3:00 am and my daughter is screaming. The plane is completely dark—except for the small, dull lights on the floors and the occasional reading lamp. Everyone around us is sleeping (or attempting to...
Welcome Home: My First Trip To Israel “Welcome home.” I’m caught off guard. It’s my second day in Israel and here I am, amid a gaggle of cargo shorts wearing Americans and having been told by an interested local: “Welcome...
Why Reviews (*Cough TripAdvisor) Have Changed the Way We Travel We could see the green sign before we even reached our rental in Port Douglas, Australia. “Certificate of Excellence, Trip Advisor 2014, 2015.” “A bit tacky,” I heard a man behind us commenting...