Category: Travel
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Cutting Travel Costs: Entertainment (in LA)
Initially I was planning on making this third and final cutting travel costs post about finding free entertainment on the road, but I realized that the entertainment that we’re partaking in on our trip is completely Los Angeles centric, but it also dawns on me that entertainment everywhere will be quite the same; location focused.
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Cutting Travel Costs: Budget Accommodations
This is the second part in the series about cutting travel costs. Last time I gave a brief rundown of how we got United to foot the bill for our round trip airfare to Los Angeles, this time I’ll share how we’re saving on our accommodations.
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Cutting Travel Costs: $0 Airfare
Our next trip is scheduled up. It’s just a short 8 days this time. In January we’re on our way to Los Angeles, CA. While our trip to Europe worked out to be quite a steal, we’re getting a bit creative this time around and it turns out we’ll be able to save a good…
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Haggling Our Way to a Prada Bag
I take every Thursday to share a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little anecdote about our travels. Today’s story comes from the streets of Rome where Marla haggled her way to her very own “Prada” bag.
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Tour Guide or Not Tour Guide, That’s the Question
If there’s one quote that you should keep in the back of your mind whenever you travel, it’s this. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”G.K. Chesterton According to Chesterton, a tourist is someone who’s goal is to check items off of a bucket list instead of…
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Da Bears: How to be a Diehard Fan in Europe
I take every Thursday (but if you’re reading this in your email it’s already Friday) to share a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little anecdote about our travels. Today’s story is about what it took to catch the Bears games while we were in…
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Working on the Road: A 22 Day Experiment
Spending 22 days working on the road proved to have unexpected challenges, but also great benefits. It’s time to weigh in on the results of the 22 day experiment in location independence.
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Charged: Attendants on the Overnight Train
This is a new thing I’m starting on the site. Typically I try to write in a way so there’s something that you can learn from our experiences, but starting today (and every Thursday) I’ll be sharing a brief story from the road. No message, no lesson, no direction in particular, just a fun little…
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Everyday Adventures: Exploring Home
[responsive_video] [/responsive_video] I started this blog to share and document the things that we learn in our travels, and there’s still much to share about Europe that we’ll write and post in the coming weeks. But beyond travel alone I think there’s things to share simply about living life to the fullest and this is…
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Primal Nutrition Hiatus: Grok No Like Europe
Being big on primal nutrition, one thing that struck me about London was the lack of protein and the major focus on grains, mostly breads. Obviously I expected Italy to be big on pasta but I just assumed that London and even Paris would allow for me to eat fairly similarly to how I do…