1.  Turn it off
2.  Flip upside down
3.  Pull apart the keyboard and hard drive and dry off
4.  Let air dry over night
5.  Go to your happy place (mine is Belgium waffles with strawberries:  see above)
Hopefully tomorrow it will at least turn on, so I can get the thousands of photos, all my writings and that [...]

Recently fellow blogger Nerdy Nomad, wrote about living on $5 a day in China.  I hate to break the news, but this is completely impossible in Paris.  While I spent four days in Paris, living as cheaply as possible I nearly broke 50 Euros a day.  If you consider that most travel websites feature articles [...]

How does one write about Paris?  Do they talk about the beauty of the city or the vibrant people or the delicious food or falling in love?  If they are a travel writer, then most likely yes.  It’s impossible to capture the essence of a place in a few sweeping observations, so we invoke images [...]

Hint: My mother is not holding it for me.
These days, everyone seems to know about getting online while abroad, using skype or MSN IM to chat with people back home and managing your money through online checking accounts. When it came time for us to fly overseas, there was one thing still hanging [...]

GUEST POST: While I am on the road this week and exploring Madrid, I’ve arranged for some of my favorite travel bloggers to share their travel stories and advice here. So enjoy, give our guest bloggers lots of love and be sure to check out the author’s site.

Maybe your adventure will take the [...]