Our 50 Favorite Travel Tips
Our 50 favorite travel tips, gleaned from 13 years of full-time travel. Save money, time, and headaches with these tips for travelers.
Tom Bartel
How to Choose the Right Travel Credit Card for You
How to choose the best travel credit cards for you. Compare credit cards to find the best points and miles welcome offers, earning categories, and ways to offset annual fees.
The Best Mobile Apps for Travel
Here are our picks for best apps to plan, book, and manage your travels from your phone or computer. Use these travel apps to find your flights, book your stay, find your way around, learn what to do and see, find doctors, organize your itinerary, secure your communications, and manage your home from afar. These are our essential travel tools.
The Camino de Santiago Packing List
The definitive Camino de Santiago packing list: all the incidental gear and other tips you’re going to want for walking the Camino de Santiago.
Why You Need a VPN When You Travel
Learn why you should always use a virtual private network, or VPN, when you travel. See our recommendation for the best VPN for international travel for privacy and security.
The Camino de Santiago: The Backpack
The best backpack for the Camino de Santiago is the smallest and lightest-weight one that will carry everything you want – and that fits you your body. It’s that simple.
Cutting in Line with the Global Entry Program
You can breeze through the lines at United States Immigration and TSA with Global Entry Program status. The process for obtaining Global Entry is relatively painless, but can take a long time for initial approval.
The Shanghai Skyline, Night and Day
If you can stand all the pushing and shoving of the millions walking along The Bund in Shanghai, you can get up to the riverside rail and get a photo of the colorful and architecturally distinguished modern Shanghai skyline.
Unbound Merino Wool for Spring Travel
Merino wool by Unbound Merino is the magic fiber for flexibility in your travel packing. Layers of merino balance warmth and breathability, so you retain body warmth when it’s cool, and shed it when it’s warm.
The Bogside Artists, Derry, Northern Ireland
All along Rossville Street, in Bogside, Derry, are murals painted by a trio of artists collectively known as The Bogside Artists. Tom Kelly, his brother William Kelly, and Kevin Hasson started painting the murals in 1993 to memorialize the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland.