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 tell someone you arrived. And your phone has no data. What do you do? Heading […]
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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 print directions, call around, or simply show up and hope someone had a room. Today,
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After more than 20 years of traveling, there’s one question Charles and I seem to ask ourselves over and over again. Could we actually live here? It’s a surprisingly different question from whether we like visiting somewhere. We’ve loved countries that would probably drive us a little crazy if we tried to live there full
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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, Airbnbs and rental apartments, plus our fair share of tents, RVs and other places that probably stretched the definition of accommodation. We’ve slept in hotel rooms
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Amsterdam was one of the first places I ever visited outside North America. I was finishing up my Master’s degree at the time, and that week in the Netherlands felt like a doorway into a much bigger world. I only spent about seven days in Amsterdam, but I loved it almost immediately. There was something
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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 space and a comfortable place where everyone can relax together at the end of the
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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 features most travelers are looking for, it’s worth taking a closer look. We’ve tested and
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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 we got to compare the BLUETTI power stations in real-world situations as well as with
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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 the easy stuff. What I really wanted to know with the BLUETTI Elite 300 was
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 travel most of us picture when we’re planning a trip. Sun on our faces, backpacks
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