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Author’s Note: I wrote this last September, but never published it.  I thought you guys might like, so here it is.  Felt like I need something light-hearted after the last two posts.  Enjoy. I used to crush on Travel.  Lately it’s gotten a little more serious.  It started out as an innocent infatuation.  I would [...]

This is part two of this story.  Read Part 1 here. It wasn’t my most graceful social exit, but the brilliant thing about traveling alone is that at anytime you can just leave. So I did. Once I was on the street and out of the sight of the bar, I realized my short-sightedness. Jesus [...]

I wasn’t sure if I would write about this. I don’t want to discourage women from traveling. But it happened to me, so I figured other women traveling solo have similar stories. We never want to talk about being scared when traveling, it dulls the illusion of a carefree life, but the reality is, it [...]

Today’s guest post is by Matt Kepnes, from NomadicMatt.com. People often ask me why I travel alone. They either assume I am too weird to have friends or am just anti-social. But that’s not why I travel alone. I travel alone because of the freedom it gives me. When you travel with a large group [...]

(Photo above: My office for a day in San Pedro, Guatemala, overlooking Lake Atitlan.  I have my blackberry, camera bag, notebook and Cuba libre.  Believe it or not, I got a lot of writing done that day, then returned back to my $8/night room.) I recently came across an article on Computer World called, Why [...]

Today’s guest post is from Erica Johansson of TravelBlissful.com. Spiders, heights, flying, roller coasters, making a fool of yourself, getting lost… Fears. We all have them…to some extent. A friend once told me: “If you say you are completely fearless, you’re either lying or insane.” Confront what scares you the most Afraid of anything in [...]

On my way out of Guatemala, I decided to spend a day in Antigua, just to see what I had missed by deciding to study Spanish in Quetzaltenango instead.  On the bus ride there, I watched Furia en la Sierra, which turned out to be the (unintentionally) funniest film of all time.  I think part [...]

There’s a couple people in my life that have been saying they are going to make a major life change for years now. I know that feeling. I kept waiting for the right time, the right plan, the right amount of money to get me out the door. Guess what? It never came. I still [...]

I spent a few days in Panajachel Guatemala. It’s the common launching point for tourists wanting to explore Lake Atitlan and the 12 small villages that surround it. As such, it’s also the stomping grounds of hundreds of street peddlers, all trying to exchange your quetzales for a braided bracelet or carved knickknacks or baked [...]

There should be a book. It would be written in Spanish, have detailed instructions and be mandatory reading for every language exchange host family. Actually I secretly think there is already such a book, as most of the families already knew the rules. But first things first: who is a gringo? Everyone. It might have [...]