Archive for February, 2010

Notes from the Homefront: How much is Too Much (Planning)? Plus! My Itinerary

Notes from the Homefront: How much is Too Much (Planning)? Plus! My Itinerary

Posted on 14. Feb, 2010 by .

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So I’ve been planning to take this round-the-world trip since last June, but it only occurred to me around January that I should probably start PLANNING this round-the-world trip.  I was then faced with a decision: how much of this trip needs to be planned out? And how? Obviously I will need to plan ahead [...]

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Friday Postcard: Arlington, Virginia (Snowpocalypse Edition)

Friday Postcard: Arlington, Virginia (Snowpocalypse Edition)

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by .

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Depending on if you follow US news, you may or may not know that my hometown of DC is being ravaged by a never ending snow storm of doom. The snow started falling last Friday afternoon, and as I look out my window today (Wednesday) it still looks like someone gave a snowglobe a hard [...]

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Lonely Planet Traveler’s Pulse Panel

Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by .

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I’m a Lonely Planet addict. I love their guidebooks and I love their website. Lonely Planet asked me to pass along the following opportunity to you guys: Calling all travelers! Lonely Planet invites you to join our Travelers’ Pulse Panel! Our panel is a discussion forum where we engage travelers and listen to what you [...]

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A New Zealand Bucket List for Twenty-Somethings

A New Zealand Bucket List for Twenty-Somethings

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by .

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Today’s guest post was contributed by Michelle Ray of Wander There. I’ve been spending much of my free Snowpocalypse time researching New Zealand so I really enjoyed reading about the highlights of Michelle’s trip to the South Island. It definitely gave me some new ideas for my own bucket list: There’s something alluring about an [...]

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Bombs Over Belgrade

Bombs Over Belgrade

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by .

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If I were to sum up Belgrade in one word, it would be “gritty.” After an amazing couple of weeks in elegant Bosnia and relaxing Montenegro it was a shock to the system to be dropped in the center of hot, urban Belgrade. Also a shock: I’d encountered my fair share of bombed out buildings [...]

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The Biggest Money Sucks for Twenty-Somethings

The Biggest Money Sucks for Twenty-Somethings

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by .

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Spending Diet update! You can track how my own savings are progressing here. The most frustrating thing about trying to save massive amounts of money is the unavoidable fact that you have to spend money to live.  It would be so much easier to sock away money from my not-terrible job if I didn’t have [...]

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Friday Postcard: Colosseum Cat

Friday Postcard: Colosseum Cat

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by .

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The Colosseum was full of feral cats. I’m a sucker for puppies and kitties so I of course took a bunch of pictures. I didn’t think much more of it until I got a request on flickr to add this photo to the group That Friendly Tabby Cat at the Colosseum. Apparently this gregorious little [...]

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Natural Remedies for the Weary Traveler

Natural Remedies for the Weary Traveler

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by .

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Today we kick off Guest-Post-Stravaganza with a neat post from Dona Francis of Wandering Dona. Dona has spent time traveling in Africa, India and South East Asia. Her experiences in the field have taught her a lot about natural first aid, which she shares with us today. It’s inevitable that at some point during your [...]

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Bloggers Helping Bloggers: Travel Blog Success

Bloggers Helping Bloggers: Travel Blog Success

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by .

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I don’t usually write about the nuts and bolts of travel blogging, mainly because I haven’t been doing this terribly long and I don’t really feel qualified to give out a lot of advice. That said, I’ve been getting a fair amount of queries lately on how I built Twenty-Something Travel into what it is [...]

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