Sustainable Gifts For The Travel Enthusiast
Finding the perfect travel gift can be a challenge, especially when you’re buying for veteran voyagers used to journeying with minimal baggage. Here are a few ideas for sustainable presents that can help travel enthusiasts preserve the beauty of nature, support local...
Train vs Air Travel
Plane trips dominate long distance travel, at least in the US. But the headache of flight delays (and the nightmare of cancellations), as well as security hassles and limited amenities may spur longtime air travelers to search for alternatives. Passenger trains are...
Best Train Trips Around The World
White-dusted peaks jutting above a swath of lush greenery, miles of rolling meadows, sprawling creeks, and a thousand other variants of nature’s most fabulous backdrops: such are the sights available to passengers of these first-class train trips. Some carriages are...
Top 5 Green Vacation Destinations
If vacations allowed the granting of impossible wishes, our trips would allow us to postpone each and every one of our worldly cares without consequence. But this is reality, so unfortunately, leaving home doesn’t stop our actions from having an effect on the...
How To Travel on a Budget
Of those who envision journeying far from home to experience snow capped peaks, vibrant wildlife or bustling cities, many hesitate to take the leap--and thus miss out--because they believe such travels to be beyond their financial reach. But cost saving strategies do...
Why The U.S Should Take Hints From European Travel
An opportunity to tour the US is one that no traveler should pass up. From New York skyscrapers to small town southern charm; from white-capped Rocky Mountains to the west coast’s sparkling shores, America is positively teeming with potential for great trips. When...
Out-Of-This-World Travel Destinations
If you’ve been on this planet for very long, chances are you’ve at some point gazed up into the starry night, and wondered what it might be like to visit a galaxy far, far away. Would everything seem maddeningly bizarre, you might’ve asked. Would air sink and water...
How to Choose A “Green” Travel Destination
With more places abroad facilitating eco-friendly practices than ever before, traveling green has never been more doable. Nevertheless, when it comes to sustainability, not all locations are created equal. If you want to minimize your environmental footprint, support...
Cheap Solo Travel Tricks
Solo travel expenses may carry a slightly higher price tag; after all, the costs aren’t shared with anyone else. But saving money on a lone voyage is far from impossible, and traveling on a budget doesn’t have to be restrictive. With knowledge of available resources,...
America’s Hidden Travel Spots
There is no shortage of beautiful places across the US, but the majority of them aren’t found on the average vacationer’s itinerary. If you’re willing to venture off the tourist-trodden path, you may end up in one of this country’s breathtaking, bizarre, or otherwise...