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It all started with a very bad idea.  Maybe it was the lack of showering or the inability to cook our own food that clouded our judgment, but one morning, in lieu of fresh bottled water, we decided to make tea with tap water.  My husband and I were in Guatemala at the time, living [...]

Read Part 1 here. The Day Pack Aside from my large backpack, I always traveled with a small day pack, in this case, a messenger style bag from The Gap.  It slings across my shoulders and the main part of the bag rests at my side.  I didn’t buy this bag with the intention of [...]

Today’s guest post is from Ross Garnaut, blogger at Lowfares.com Ross is writing about something I’ve always been curious about: does traveling  for your job, change the way you view travel? Could it ever lose it’s shine? Read on. If you’d like write to guest post: contact Almostfearless with your story idea and a bit [...]

I’m writing a new column.  It’s about being a Digital Nomad, and I couldn’t be more excited. Since I gave up corporate life for the live-anywhere, work-from-the-beach, sunblock-as-work-uniform lifestyle, I’ve been bitten by the bug.  When you find something you love, you just want to tell everyone about it.  Now, a new magazine has given [...]

Let’s face it, if money was no issue, you’d already be traveling. In fact, if you have a passport, a clean change of clothes and a dream destination, you already have everything you need to travel. The problem is, of course, what happens after your Visa gets shut off, you have no more cash and [...]

Today’s guest post is from Matt Kepnes, blogger at NomadicMatt.com Matt agreed to write this post after I asked him about a rumor I had heard in the travel circles that if you enter long term travel single, you’ll stay that way. As a married traveler, I was curious on the singleton’s perspective and I’d [...]

If you’ve read your umpteenth post on how to start your own travel blog, you might be thinking that having a blog is the latest must-have travel accessory.  If you’re not uploading your photos and latest adventure from a Thai internet cafe, you’re missing out.  Right? Or could most things accomplished with a blog be [...]

Back in college, when I lived in Northampton, MA,  I swore I would never stay.  The graduate school drop outs turned baristas, the aging hipster bar backs with Betty Page hair dos and a fetish for pleather, the insane, the homeless, the borderline crazies, the academics, the failed poets, the psychotic lesbians next door who [...]