Picture the first 20 minutes after landing somewhere new. You’re trying to figure out where you’re going. Someone needs the hotel address. You want Google Maps. Maybe you need Uber, Grab, WhatsApp, a train schedule, or simply a way to tell someone you arrived. And your phone has no data. What do you do? Heading […]
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When we first started traveling together almost 20 years ago, spontaneous travel could be genuinely spontaneous. We sometimes arrived in a town without a hostel or hotel booked, partly because plenty of smaller places still didn’t have online booking. We’d print directions, call around, or simply show up and hope someone had a room. Today,
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After more than 20 years of travel, Charles and I have slept in pretty much every kind of place you can imagine. We’ve stayed in hundreds of hotels, hostels, huts, Airbnbs and rental apartments, plus our fair share of cars, tents, vans, RVs, and other places that probably stretched the definition of accommodation. We’ve slept
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Travel is expensive right now. It’s sad but true. Flights, hotels, gas, food, airport snacks, checked bag fees, it all adds up fast. So when a luggage set comes in at a genuinely accessible price point and still has the features most travelers are looking for, it’s worth taking a closer look. We’ve tested and
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This post is sponsored by BLUETTI. All testing, opinions, and real-world notes are our own. Portable power stations are becoming as ubiquitous to camping and rv/van life as they are to emergency home backup power users and off gridders. The power options they provide is easy to understand when we’re talking about phones, tablets, laptops,
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There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when you wake up to winter weather, check the forecast, and see the words freezing rain buried in the afternoon outlook. If you live in the mountains of British Columbia as we do, you already know what that can mean: downed power lines, flickering lights, and
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