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Want To Travel? Do It NOW.

October 20, 2010

We didn’t travel much when I was a kid. Maybe to Indiana a time or two to see the grandparents. But no Disneyland, no Grand Canyon and definitely no trips out of the country. My first time off of US soil was exactly seven years ago, when I got this hairbrained idea to go study [...]

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You on the WRONG bus, gringo!

February 28, 2010

“No . . . NO, no, no . . .” That was about the extent of my Spanish when I saw the ten-inch kitchen knife appear. It’s 10:30 on a Tuesday morning. I’m en route to the San Juan airport after yet another amazing trip to Puerto Rico. It’s become an annual ritual to fly to [...]

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Surf anywhere- for free!

February 16, 2010

If you know me, you’ve probably heard me raving about this super cool organization called CouchSurfing. CouchSurfing is, in a nutshell, a humongous network (almost 1.7 million strong- check out their stats page) of people offering others a place to stay when traveling. That “place to stay” may actually be a couch. Or it may [...]

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