Posts Tagged "planning"

Seven Mistakes that Make You Pay Extra

Posted by on Nov 11, 2013 in Planning | 0 comments

Seven Mistakes that Make You Pay Extra

Summary: What kind of mistakes make you pay extra, and how to avoid them—learn from our experience! Here is some advice that will prevent you from paying more than you should. After more than a year of travel, we now have less money but more memories, more wisdom and more skills related to planning than when we started. On the way, we have made many mistakes that could have saved us time and money. Most of them could have been avoided if we had just had a little bit more patience and experience. So we’ve decided to share our mistakes with you so you can avoid making them 1- Airplane Booking Don’t only check the price, but also the timing. This isn’t to say that...

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12 Benefits of Travel that Will Change Your Mind

Posted by on Sep 9, 2013 in Countries, Planning | 2 comments

12 Benefits of Travel that Will Change Your Mind

Summary: Why do people travel? Why do some of them travel and never stop traveling? There must be some benefit to traveling. An Arabic quote says that there are seven advantages to travel. We have found out that there are many more than that. Don’t ever think that you will come back from a trip unchanged. In addition to the fact that you will learn a lot of things, travel changes you (in a good way!). Here are the main things that we’ve learned from our travels and how they have affected us. There are many practical skills that you will have to learn while traveling (whether you like it or not). Otherwise you may screw up your trips and not enjoy them as much as you...

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2013 Travel Plans

Posted by on Feb 10, 2013 in Countries, Planning, Where we've been | 4 comments

2013 Travel Plans

New year with new plans, this post will draw a picture for you on our 2013 travel plans. Where will we go and for how long? 2013 a new year with new plans! It’s been almost 6 months since we’ve started our permanent travel, we crossed the United States and roamed around Bolivia and now we are in the Galapagos, all according to our last 6 months plan. So, we though of sharing the rest of our 2013 travel plans. Ecuador We are still in the Ecuador till end of April, visiting the Galapagos for a month or 2 and then head to another city/town or 2. We are thinking of Baños and Montañita and all depends on how comfortable we will be with the Galapagos and how much...

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Our Travel Plans for the next 6 months, winter 2011

Posted by on Oct 21, 2012 in Countries, Planning, Where we've been | 0 comments

Our Travel Plans for the next 6 months, winter 2011

Summary Check our travel plans for the winter that include Bolivia, Ecuador and Spain. This post includes how we managed to save $1000 at least on our tickets from South America to Europe. When we first landed in the United States we planned to stay for couple of months before heading to South America, we did so far a decent travel from east cost crossing the country to west cost and a total of 7,251 KM (4,505.5 Mi). We have visited 6 states, 9 cities and experienced 4 different time zones. We had our ups and downs but in general we had a wonderful and rich experience. Last week we went to search for a plane ticket to South America and our plan was basic, go to Bolivia...

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