All Entries in the "Travel Advice" Category
Q&A – Cell Phones and ESL
I get many emails from travelers all over the world asking me questions about my travels. Here are some of the recent ones that are great to share with everyone! If you have a question, don’t hesitate to ask!
Q: from Dave – Brooklyn
I came across your blog and was very impressed by your decision [...]
My Three (Girlie) Travel Secrets
One of my best friends (who I love dearly…Angie…ahem) always sends me (and other victims) these crazy ‘chain’ emails. She always begins the email by apologizing for sending it…which I find a little weird. You know the kind, the chain emails where you need to fill something out about yourself and send it [...]
Always Pack Your Toothbrush In Your Carry-on
Many people hate airline travel. They hate overpriced airline tickets, they hate the cramped space, the crying babies, the lost luggage, and the swine flu or myriad of other viruses you tend to catch on the plane. However airline travel is usually necessary to accomplish a vacation, so no matter how much you hate it, [...]
Saigon City Guide
Last month I produced a Saigon City guide podcast for one of my favorite travel websites, The Indie Travel Podcast. I love writing, and I wasn’t really sure how I would like researching and doing a podcast, but it proved ot be a lot of fun! So – here’s everything you want to know about [...]
Reasons to Take a Career Break and Travel
I recently contributed an article to BootsnAll Travel highlighting the “Top 10 Reasons to Take a Career Break…and Travel”. I wrote this with the help of my business partner, Michaela Potter, in order to promote our recently launced website -
Briefcase to Backpack: America’s Career Break Headquarters
If you haven’t been to the site, then please go [...]
How to Live Out of a Suitcase
Check out my latest article on The Indie Travel Podcast about how to live out of a suitcase/backpack while doing long term travel.
You may wonder how on earth you can live out of a suitcase or backpack. I can’t say it’s easy, but with a few of these tips, you’ll at least make sure your [...]
Travel Q&A with Ottsworld
I’ve been blogging now for close to 3 years and I get questions from strangers weekly. The questions range from
“Are you rich?”
“How can I do what you are doing”
“How did you come up with the name for your cat?”
“What did you pack?”
“At what point did you know you were going to take a career break?”
“Where [...]
Suitcase Diet: What you DON’T need to pack!
I love traveling, but I hate packing. It’s really one of the most stressful things about traveling for me. Sure, this should be easy, but when you’re packing for a long trip and you will be lugging your pack around for months, efficient, smart packing all of a sudden becomes priority #1!
Of course I hate packing [...]
Recession Proof Travel – Eliminating the Middle Man
Check out my latest post on the Indie Travel Podcast about how to save money while traveling.
Booking tours online can be a great way to organize your trip ahead of time. But it’s also a pretty sure-fire way to waste money – a fair proportion of the cost goes to the middle man. Learn how [...]
15 of the Most Read Articles on Boots-n-all
I recently found out some surprising news. Bootsnall, where my blog was originally hosted, just published their year end newsletter and included a story to the 15 most read articles on Boots-n-all from 2008. I was scrolling through the list and there my article was at the bottom – Pee Pee Island: A Girls Guide to [...]
Become a Vagabond Master!
Here’s the link to my latest article on the Indie Travel Podcast! Go check it out and peruse the whole site; it’s a wealth of information for the independent traveler!
Do you have what it takes to become a vagabond master? Complete this four-week training regime to prepare your body, mind and suitcase for the realities [...]
Abrupt Transitions
Dhal Bat Days - Vol. 1
8/30/08
Oh my God – what have I done? I kind of feel like it’s my first week at college again where I miss my friends and my comfortable life and wonder how the hell I’m ever going to make it.
I arrived in Kathmandu after 27 hours of travel from NYC [...]
How To Survive Being A Passenger
Check out my latest travel article on the Indie Travel Podcast site! I’ve had many experiences with being a passenger, so I put together some things to consider before stepping onto that plane, train, bus, bike, or automobile. Sometimes you need drugs, sometimes you need a little help from above, but most of all you [...]
Want to take a Career Break and Travel?
If you are sitting at your desk, stealing away a few minutes of sanity from meetings, your 4th cup of coffee, emails, the blackberry, and deadlines – then read on…
A few years ago when I started researching my career break, I quickly realized that for a corporate American – I was exploring new territory. There [...]
Solo Travel & My New Writing Gig
I was recently asked to become a regular contributor for one of my favorite travel websites – The Indie Travel Podcast. Their site has a wealth of information and downloadable podcasts for the long term traveler. I utilized many of their podcasts during my travels! Plus, Craig and Linda (the hosts of the podcasts and [...]
From The Outside Looking In
Photo: American Grocery Store
America – my home country…my passport, my culture. I’ve been gone from it for 15 months and am now re-entering it with a fresh pair of eyes. I have to first start out, I do love my country. It is my heritage. I love our freedom, I love our rights, I love [...]
Travel by Numbers
I must admit, I went to school for Accounting, why – I have no idea.
“Hello my name is Sherry and I’m a bean counter.”
Yeah – it never quite fit me, nor my personality, which is probably how I ended up in Information Technology. However, there was something about numbers that I liked which seems to [...]
