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The paralysis is real. You know you want to go somewhere. You have some time off coming up, maybe a rough budget, possibly a vague sense of a type of place — beaches, or cities, or somewhere you’ve never been. And then you open a browser and the options are so vast and so unstructured…
Currency exchange is one of those travel topics where the difference between doing it well and doing it badly is measured in real money — sometimes a lot of it. A two-week trip to Southeast Asia where you exchange your cash at airport kiosks instead of using an ATM with the right card could cost…
The first travel credit card I got, I picked for the wrong reasons. It had a good sign-up bonus, I applied, got approved, and spent about six months trying to figure out why the rewards I was earning weren’t turning into the free flights I’d vaguely imagined. The points were accumulating in a program I…
The first time I traveled solo in Europe, I spent the week before departure reading every “safety tips for women” article I could find and came away more anxious than when I started. Most of the advice was either so obvious it was useless — “don’t walk down dark alleys alone at night” —…
Two weeks a year. That’s what a lot of people are working with — either because their job offers limited paid leave, because life circumstances make longer absences impossible, or because they’re not yet in a position to take extended time off. And for years, I operated under the assumption that two weeks wasn’t…
Jet lag is one of those travel problems that sounds minor until you are standing in a hotel lobby at 3 a.m., wide awake, hungry at the wrong time, and wondering why your body thinks it is still yesterday. Most travelers deal with it at some point. A long flight, a big time difference, a…
Most flight booking advice on the internet falls into one of two categories: either it’s so vague it’s useless (“be flexible with your dates!”) or it’s based on patterns that haven’t been true for years (“always book on a Tuesday at midnight!”). Neither helps you actually find a cheaper fare. The reality is that airline…
The first time I did a two-week trip with only a carry-on, I was convinced I’d run out of clothes by day five and spend the second week in a mild panic. That didn’t happen. What happened instead was that I got through airports faster, never waited at a baggage carousel, saved money on checked…