Are you fully backed up if all your electronics get stolen or lost while you’re traveling? Or your hard drive crashes? When I first backpacked around the world in the 1990s, pre-internet, my back-up files were pieces of paper. Bank account numbers, passport copies, and an address book. All our music was on cassettes and …

There are a lot of great reasons to visit Costa Rica, and as I wrote in this post I have updated a couple times, it can be worth the splurge if you do it right as a traveler. If you’re heading there thinking it’s a bargain, however, just because it’s a less developed country in …

Most people have a pretty clear vision in their mind of what Mexico is like, despite this being a very large country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific and would take days to drive across. There’s a much wider diversity of climates and altitudes than people expect. I just spent some time in …

Peru gets a lot of travelers, from budget backpackers to “money is no object” luxury travelers ticking off a box on their bucket list. Because of Machu Picchu being named one of the wonders of the world and Peru seemingly unable to stop milking that cash cow in all their marketing, an inordinate number of …

As you read this, a hundred new last-minute travel deals are being posted all around the web. But of course you can only use one at a time, right? So how do you find that fantastic “We’ve gotta grab this!” bargain that will get you a great weekend getaway or long vacation for cheap? You …