*NOTE: This post was updated two years later with new experience and insight. When I first started traveling, I did it infrequently enough that I had a different camera gear setup for almost each trip. I began traveling when I was in college, which is right around the same time I was getting used to…
Tag: planning
The Most Difficult Trip to Plan
I’ve been planning our trip itineraries for 5 years now. I developed a process of using Google Drive, which has worked quite well and ensured that our trips were packed full of great sites and activities. Sometimes we followed our plan closely, but usually we would modify it; either way, it was always a great starting…
How to Use the Time Between Vacations to Make Your Next Trip Easier
The thing about being a travel addict with a full-time office job is that I have long stretches of time between my trips where I’m not living my travel dream. For a while, it was years in between. Now Kevin and I have gotten to the point where we’re averaging 1-2 trips a year, which…
How I Use Google Drive and Pinterest to Plan Trips
Today I want to share my travel planning process. I LOVE trip planning! It’s almost as much fun as the trip itself to me. I like to use Pinterest and Google Drive mostly for my planning, and after performing these steps for my last several trips, I feel pretty good about my method. Of course,…
Change How You Think About Travel Savings: 7 Tips That Work
When I asked my Facebook network to tell me their biggest personal obstacles to traveling, unremarkably the top answer was money. Does this surprise anyone? It’s pretty much common knowledge that wages and living costs have not exactly increased at the same pace over the past few decades, making it a lot harder these days…
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