Shelley Story’s “Prepare for Departure: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Study Abroad Experience,” is a book dedicated to leading you around the obstacles that slow you down during your study abroad trip. Being in a foreign land can sometimes be confusing or overwhelming. This book allows for you to spend more time […]
Book Review: Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel
Lonely Planet’s list of 500 best places is the perfect book for the coffee table of someone who loves to travel. This book is compiled of the best places to travel around the globe -from ancient temples to the great barrier reef– this book has every expedition one could dream of. Each listed place will give […]
A Guide to Guddies
Has there been a time where you felt directionless in an unfamiliar city? Did you ever want to visit a famous site without paying for a costly tour? Have you ever wanted to dine like the locals while abroad? There is a way to solve these questions by visiting LocalGuddy.com. Upon reaching the site you […]
What To Do When You Lose Your Passport
Passport troubles abroad can be a nightmare because people can be targets for identity theft. Once you find out your passport has been lost or stolen, it’s recommended to immediately report it to the police to decrease chances of someone stealing your identity. While losing a passport is an inconvenience to your adventure or dream […]
Music to Listen to During Your Next Flight
I’ve always looked back on my life experiences as if I were watching a movie montage and music has guided every last one of them; it is the “soundtrack to my life” if you will. As you embark on your own journey there are so many open ended questions and fears in the air that […]
What To Do When Applying For Your Passport
Traveling overseas and visiting different countries is an awesome experience. But before buying your first plane ticket for overseas you’ll need a key document: a passport. Obtaining a passport is not as tedious as you would imagine, but actually receiving the passport could take a few weeks, which is totally worth it when it comes. […]
What to Do to Keep Your Phone Connected Abroad
Our phones are an essential travel item. As I mentioned in a previous article, cell phones can assist us with all of our travel needs. But how can you make your phone work so you can be able to use it to its full potential? There are tips and items available that will help you […]
What to Do With Your Phone When Abroad
Our phones play an integral part in our everyday lives. We use our phones to do things like fact checking or researching unfamiliar topics. And because phones have a manifold of features they double as our portable music players, alarm clocks and even flashlights. And since you take your phone wherever you go why not […]
You Pack Too Much of These…
We often times try to prepare ourselves for the worst-case scenario when traveling. By having this mindset, we end up over-preparing. Our baggage ends up being too heavy because we simply have too much. We even feel inclined to bring things that we don’t need. Here is a list of things that you don’t need […]
Translations Made Simple
In the early days of Google’s translation app, “Google Translate,” copying and pasting foreign text into the app was the only way to decipher a language, and an inconveniencing one at that. In May 2016, that trouble became obsolete with Google Translate’s “Tap to Translate” feature, which extends to any app that allows copying and […]