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 …

Climate change and carbon offsetting is one of those highly controversial topics that can spark debates and heated words within the travel industry (hey, it’s happened). And while it’s front and center on some traveler’s agenda, the topic is also often swept under the carpet and ignored so that we can continue traveling guilt-free.
And lest you think I’m pointing fingers, let me be the first to admit that I flew a grand total of 14 flights in just 11 months to take my dream round the world trip…that’s not …

I’ve wanted to review the Diva Cup for awhile but didn’t want to shock any of my male readers. But the time has come and I will start out this product review with a warning:
Attention Men: Move Along Now
Consider that your warning. But also consider that you may find this review helpful for your girlfriend or wife – it’s actually worth a read if you’re not easily embarrassed!
Now, onto the product – I’m writing this review without any incentive (read: they’re not paying me!) and truly just love this …

Hands down one of the best days in Italy (and a top day on the RTW trip actually) was the Tuscan bike tour we signed up for –it was done on a bit of a whim since the price was a bit high at Euro 60 for the day, but after our long hard day of absorbing art and culture at the Uffizi and the Accademia we decided to splurge. Besides the pretty pictures in the brochure and the note on the Web site to bring sunscreen, we …

The trip to Cinque Terre is entirely for the five-hour hike that hugs the coastline and took us from the water’s edge to cliffs high above the sea, and then back down again as we passed through the five small towns. Cinque Terre is unapologetically spectacular. Some backpackers I meet scoff at the tourist beat – and Cinque Terre is definitely on the tourist beat, but to miss this gem would just be an atrocity. Even Helen loved Cinque Terre and she shuns the sun with full on …

Royal Chitwan National Park, wild rhinos are the least of our worries – it’s the wild elephants that will charge you and attempt to rip your limbs apart by stepping on you with a foot and then wrenching your body apart with their trunk. This was essentially my welcome speech when I arrived at Chitwan. The whole group of VSSN volunteers decided to book an eco-friendly tour down to Chitwan together so that we could get a deeper discount and get to know each other more along the way. …