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Lonely Planet Traveler’s Pulse Panel

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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Bloggers Helping Bloggers: Travel Blog Success

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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Planning to go Backpacking: Where to Start?

If you are reading this, than chances are you are either related to me (hi mom!) or you want to incorporate more travel into your life.  That can be a really daunting thing, especially if you haven’t done a lot of travel before. Whether you are planning a short trip, long trip, RTW or a [...]

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Giving Back to the World: Frommer’s 500 Places Where You Can Make a Difference

If you are reading this then you are probably in the lucky position of being one of the wealthier people in the world. Even if you feel like you are scraping by, we travelers lead an extremely privileged life compared to many of the people in nations we visit. This is why many travelers choose [...]

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Using TripIt to Stay Organized

As I’ve said before, I’m a fan of having an old-fashioned pen and paper travel notebook.  However, once you move from the brainstorming phase to making concrete plans you’re going to need a system to handle all of the electronic reservations and information coming your way. TripIt is an online tool that can help you [...]

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