Around-the-world travel

Please don’t ask me how many countries I’ve been to. I lost count long ago and don’t care. Some people collect countries visited like that’s something to brag about. They’ll put in their social media feed that they were the youngest person to visit every country in the world, or they’re “on a quest to …

You’ve saved up, planned an itinerary, and you’re ready to take off on a round-the-world journey or months of extended travel backpacking. Great! Are you really ready though for life on the road? For all the parts that are not glamorous in the least? Most people I’ve met who are backpacking around the world end …

How well do you deal with noise? If you are about to go backpacking around the world, you had better get good at tuning out cacophony. Or you had better pack a monster bag of earplugs. Get ready to hear night noise like you have never heard before. I am reminded of this fact every …

You hear this phrase a lot among international travelers and see it a lot in comments online. “Why didn’t anyone tell me that?” In a way this blog started out as a way for me to give people a heads up on things they needed to know before they went traveling around the world. I …

With the signing this year of a peace deal between the government and the rebels in Colombia, 2016 marked the first time in history that there is no war going on in all of the Americas. Who knows how far back you’d probably have to go when that was previously the case, but it’s likely …