Travel Articles and Advice

Find your travel questions answered below on everything from travel tech to money advice and even travel films. If you are a travel writer or if you aren't but you pretend to be, then email us about making a guest post on Travel Droppings. Submit your content to Travel Droppings if you are looking for another outlet for your travel writings to promote your travel website or blog.

Travel Tech Talking

Digital Workflow for a backpack-photog-blogger One travelers system for backpups and uploads, sans film.

Memory Card advice - How to keep your memory card from corrupting your innocent photos

Which e-reader to use for guidebooks while traveling

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.

How to save money on travel gear - Saving money on the gear you need for your next trip abroad

Go Analog - Use a map on your next road trip. It might not be the stone ages but this is our challenge to you.

Photography Tips - for taking better self portraits. Just watch out for that double chin

Perfect cell phones for traveling - here are a few of our favorites to bring with you when going overseas.

Travel Movies, Films and Media:

Indie Travel Docs You need to see - 10 MPH, 180 Degrees South and Throw Down Your Heart are just a few of the great indie doc titles to catch.

A Map For Saturday another great independent tavel documentary. Check out the trailer and read our review.

Best travel films of 2009 has our three top picks of travel themed movies.

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.

Practical Travel Advice

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inspiration to Travel

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.

Start traveling now - Here are reasons why it is important to begin your life now, especially if you want to travel.

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 vs. Ibn Battuta- These two adventurers saw the world in a different way while others sat back and waited. Here is how their journeys compare.

Burger vs Burger: Round 1 in a fierce competition of an English Burger vs an Australian Burger.

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.