How To Attend a Destination Wedding (On the Cheap!) Beneath the often ornate envelope is your invitation to spend upwards of a few thousand dollars to attend a friend’s destination wedding. Most of us experience that pocketbook dread when the destination...
QUIZ: What Vices Are You Willing to Give Up for an Epic Euro Trip? We've heard it all before, "Cut out your daily Starbucks and you could save a-bazillion dollars by the end of your lifetime!" Now, we don't know about you, but going a lifetime without coffee sounds a bit...
Amazing International Airports Where You’ll Want to Spend a Layover Most travelers do everything within their power to avoid a multi-hour layover. However, as most of us who fly regularly know, the occasional layover is inevitable, especially when traveling internationally....
6 Fall Vacations You Can *Actually* Afford to Take Have you heard of the off-season? It's probably the single most important season to a budgeting traveler. It's that sweet spot between September and February when tourist season is over and iconic cities are...
8 Steps to Completely Avoiding Jetlag on Your Next International Trip Jetlag. Possibly the worst part of international travel. We all know the drill: months of excited anticipation, frenzied packing, fervent planning, restless flying, and then... Boom. You lay down for a short...
6 Spots Millennials Should Flock to This Fall Ah, Millennials. We do love those little buggers. They seem to love taking long-held travel trends and flipping them on their head -- and, hey, we like it! It keeps us on our toes. So when we thought about...
How to Balance Planning and Spontaneity While Traveling One of the things that attracted me to my husband when we first started dating was the fact that he liked to travel as much as I did. A year into our relationship, we had the opportunity to spend a month...
Five Great Homecoming Celebrations Across the U.S. September is the month when homecoming season kicks off and, let’s face it, some schools do it better than others. We’ve scouted out some of the best homecoming celebrations and traditions across the...
How to Make Friends While You Travel “Anna and Reto got married,” I told my husband Kevin, the other night. We were sitting in bed, me on Facebook on my phone, him in the middle of a Fantasy Football draft. “Did they post pictures?” He...
How to Handle Missing Your Flight So you've missed your flight already -- that sucks. But there's perhaps nothing worse than the panicky feeling that comes next: What do I do now? Though some people's answers to that are different than what...
5 Apps That Can Enrich Your Travel Experience When you’re on the road, things can get lonely. Sure, you must have had high expectations of meeting awesome people on your travels, but maybe you’re just a bit shy and sometimes find yourself behind a...
Drink Beer, Leaf Peep, & Dance the Tango: 5 Must-See Spots This September Happy September, folks! Summer hasn’t quite ended yet, but the smell of fall is already in the air, am I right? Clothing stores are full of frocks in burgundy, mustard, and charcoal gray, convenience...
4 Crazy Stories of People Flying for Free (And What You Can Learn From Them) Flying for free is a dream for most people, but for some lucky folks, it’s a reality. We’ve all heard those stories of people playing the game: opening and cancelling credit card accounts, scouring the...
How to Pack a Last-Minute Go Bag (Like a Pro) If you have just 10 minutes to gather your bag for travel, chaos and pandemonium can set in, leaving you with a bag filled with unnecessary items and devoid of forgotten essentials. By having a go bag at the...