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While You're Out
New! Memory Card advice - How to keep your memory card from corrupting your innocent photos
New! Which e-reader to use for guidebooks while traveling
Updated: Indie Travel Docs You need to see.
Just added the beautiful piece of documentary freshness, 180 Degrees South.
Uglify Your computer and and protect it from thieves while your traveling abroad
Uglify your mac/PC to prevent thievery, then add Phone Home to be extra safe.
Do You have proper Travel Insurance? An article from our friends at World Nomads.
Advice on banking while traveling overseas. This one can actually save you money, but you might still feel guilty afterwards
How to be cool. These are some easy tips for any traveler who just to fit in and be considered cool.
Sean enlightens us with a guide to meat eating in Argentina
Is it mandatory to learn the language of the places to which you travel? Sean pondered the issue as he made his way around Latin America.
National Holiday and festivals around the world - If you're going to be in any of these places it would be a great time to celebrate!
A few more creative ways to make a few more bucks - Be sure to bone up on these skills just in case you find yourself short of change when you're abroad.
Souvenir gimmicks we see while we are traveling and what you can do to improve on them. Some advice.
Go Analog - Use a map on your next road trip. It might not be the stone ages but this is our challenge to you.
Make that journey by sea - Its relaxing pace is a lot of fun and much more memorable. Here are a few ways to go trans continental without a plane.
Photography Tips - for taking better self portraits. Just watch out for that double chin
Before you go
A Map For Saturday is a great independent tavel documentary. Check out the trailer and read our review.
Our favorite travel documentaries take us across the USA, to Africa and on a RTW trip. Check out these sweet films.
Best travel films of 2009 has our three top picks of travel themed movies.
Perfect cell phones for traveling - here are a few of our favorites to bring with you when going overseas.
How to save for your next trip within a year- Here we will crunch the numbers to send you away to a trip to anywhere in the world.
The best travel TV programs ...when you dont have cable TV. If you are saving money, than you probably had to cut the cable. All is not lost for your travel TV programs.
Start traveling now - Here are reasons why it is important to begin your life now, especially if you want to travel.
What to do with personal belongings when you leave for a trip abroad. You only have a couple options and here are the best of them.
Travel Thoughts and Contemplations
Great travel photographers of our time These photographers have made the most memorable impact on my traveling style. Here is some of there work.
Gap year in the US - It is not a common practice to take a gap year for most US high school students, but that should change. Here's why.
Marco Polo & Ibn Battuta- Two of the first adventurers saw the world in a different way while others sat back and waited. Here is how their journeys stack up.
And last but not least is a page dedicated to some of the more interesting travel sites online and the ones we are happy to call ourselves fans of.