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Travel as a Project

No matter where you go or why, travel can be a lot of fun.

You’re putting yourself in a new context, and that allows you to remove yourself from established habits and routines. You also will usually find more novelty to take in, as the place you’re visiting is not your day-to-day environment, and there’s so much more that’s unfamiliar.

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Can Travel Get Played Out?: Avoiding Traveler’s Burnout

For many of us, travel is the be all end all of what makes us feel most alive and kickin’. However, that doesn’t mean that after due time spent in the trenches of travel one can’t eventually get burnt out on travel and all of its glory.

In a way it’s like the new favorite song that you keep listening to over and over again be it in your car, getting ready for work, getting pumped to go out, etc. You can’t get enough of it. But eventually you reach a point where you click skip when it comes on your custom Pandora station because when all is said and done, you’re ready for a change.

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Orlando…or No?

It amazes me how many times during boarding passengers ask me if the plane is safe, the pilots are rested or if there was anything they should know about that particular flight that would inhibit them from getting to point B from A safely. If there was a problem that would prevent that, I assure you I wouldn’t have come to work.

Though, there is one variable that changes constantly which does affect all phases of flight, the weather. It’s predictable to an extent, but what happens when it changes quicker than the forecasters or the airplanes radar can follow?

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The 5 Ultimate Roadtripping Highways America has to Offer

Road tripping is one of the best ways to truly see a country. Sure it takes longer, can get a little grosser, and puts you in close quarters with other people for a long period of time, but it is well worth it.

As my 2 week road trip of America’s West Coast is coming to an end, I thought what better time to share some resources on some of the best road tripping destinations in the US.

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Mistaken Identity, Bus Schedules and the Pura Vida Spirit

One of the the interesting things about being an Indian guy who is living or traveling in Central or Latin America is that I’m constantly mistaken for a local.  Most gringos who see me start conversations with me in Spanish. A few days ago a girl in the water who has been living here in Costa Rica for 3 years turns to me and tells me in Spanish that the waves were closing out fast. I agreed in Spanish assuming she was a local. A few minutes later I heard her talking in an American accent and realized that she had mistaken for me a local because of my dark skin.  This wasn’t the first instance in which a gringo assumed I was a local. In fact anytime a gringo sees me they start the conversation in Spanish because they figure I must speak Spanish.  It’s always amusing to see the look on their face when I say “hey, what’s up?”  When I lived in Brazil for 6 months, even though I was hanging out with 5 other foreigners, the Brazilians all assumed I was Brazilian, which is funny considering anybody could pass for Brazilian given the melting pot that Brazil is. In fact I met somebody who told me the Brazilian passport is the world’s most sought after passport because you could put any picture on it, and it would pass.

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The GTD For the Traveling Nomad With A Lot To Do

Hootie asked a question in the 90′s that got all of us thinking…”Time, why you runnin’ from me?” I have to say, I wonder where the time goes more and more as each day passes, especially when I’m traveling. And while I tend to think about this particular lyric more in terms of how time flies when I’m just having so much damn fun, lately its been the fact that I don’t have enough time to get everything I want to do when traveling that’s making the song ring a bell!!

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The Things We Leave Behind

It’s impossible to travel without leaving a trace.

Sometimes it’s trash, sometimes it’s gifts, sometimes it’s just a memory or a photograph on a wall, but we all leave evidence of our passing through, whether in the physical environment or the memory of locals. You were there, and someone knows it and remembers.

That’s not a particularly easy thing to change. What you can control, however, is what you leave behind.

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4 KICKASS WAYS TO START OFF DAY 1 OF ANY TRAVEL ADVENTURE

The first day of travel is essential as the kickoff for any trip be it a short stay over a mini weekend, a 2 week road trip (like me!), or the beginning to a year in a foreign country or a RTW trip.

Yes I know… often times on day one we are so jetlagged all we want to do is get to our hostel and past out, but we are real travelers here, and that’s just now how we roll, is it my friends? Being that just yesterday was DAY 1 of my 2 Week Road Trip sponsored by FoxRentaCar who has a good standing in the West Coast, we decided we needed to start our trip off with a bang.

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6 things that work for us on Disney vacations


As I mentioned last time, our family went on a 10 day Disney trip and we just returned a couple of days ago. This is our fourth trip to a Disney park in the last six years. For others planning their own Disney trips, here are 10 things that work for us on a Disney vacation.

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Things We Take for Granted in the USA

I’ve spent the last two months out of the country and within hours of landing in New York City, I started to realize just how much we take for granted when we live in the United States. My life in Costa Rica has been full of days that test my patience . 10 hours after I landed in New York, I came to one conclusion: “I can get more done in 24 hours in the USA than I can in one week in Costa Rica.”

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