Now that I’ve been back in the States for a couple of months I find that some of my well-honed travel habits went AWOL on me and just disappeared without asking me if I was ready to part ways.  You see, I never lose anything on the road (truly haven’t left anything behind) yet in the past two months I’ve misplaced sunglasses, wallets, keys, and power cords for sometimes days while I’m living out cozy bedrooms at the hospitality of my friends.
In fact, my friends consistently joke that I …

Two years ago, nearly to the month, I stumbled across a blog that, quite literally, changed my life.
They dubbed themselves “The Lost Girls” and they were three women who quit their jobs in NYC to travel around the world together for an entire year…and what’s more, they documented the entire trip on their blog several years before other women travel bloggers were doing the same.
It was revolutionary to me. Women could do this? Like actually take off from the US for a whole year to travel?
Their blog came at …

About a month ago Brian from No Debt World Travel contacted about the launch of a new guide he wrote (and he provided me with a free copy of the e-book). Titled the same as his site, I was enthused to review his guide, No Debt World Travel, and share my thoughts here on A Little Adrift – because I figured – hey, a lot of RTW newbies find my site and wouldn’t it be just swell to tell them how they can travel the world without debt.
Interestingly enough, …

This week wraps up our three part series on how to travel around the world completely via land and sea travel. Michael is a full year into his RTW trip (he thinks it will last about 16 months total) and has shared valuable tips and information over the past three weeks about ways other travelers can plan a flightless trip around the world…from giving yourself a lot of time to travel overland (1), to coping with the extra cost of flightless travel (2).
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Michael Hodson from The Mobile Lawyer continues this week sharing first-hand tips about how to travel around the world without taking a single airplane. He has spent the last year on a ground-level RTW trip taking buses, trains, and ships in a desire to feel every step of his trip around the globe. This three part series covers all of the tips and information he has picked up on a year of flightless travel. Don’t forget to check out the first installment, traveling around the world without flying tips …

I’m heading to New York City at the end of the month and I’m actually probably as thrilled to head to NYC as I am to the more exotic locales in Central America that I’ll visit in February.
I’ve been to NYC a grand total of once – for the three days surrounding my 18th birthday. And while I jam-packed in a Broadway show and a handful of the most popular sites…I’ve never really seen the city.
Which begs the question:
What’s your favorite place in New York City?
I’ll be staying with …

This is one of those ever-present questions for new travelers – do you bring a laptop on your round the world trip?
And you may be wondering if you should start your own travel blog? If you opt for full-scale travel blog then it’s a no-brainer, you need a laptop with you.
And if you’ve already decided yes and want some fantastic resources for developing the blog, check out Develop Your RTW Travel Blog.
But if your somewhere in between – consider the pros and cons. It can be incredibly liberating to …

So, you’re heading out on your round the world trip and you want to document all of your travels. The big question crops up, should you start a travel blog to record stories and photos?
If you’ve already decided yes and want some fantastic resources for developing the blog, check out Develop Your RTW Travel Blog.
I field this question an awful lot and it’s hard to answer, mostly because blogging from the road is not all roses, cake, and flowers. It takes a lot of work to keep any site …