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10 New Things I’ve Learned from Traveling

December 26, 2022February 10, 2022 by Tom Bartel
Dog bite, travel clinic, travel insurance

Here’s an updated list of things I’ve learned from traveling pretty much non stop for the last 12 years. Travel tips and seasoned advice.

Categories Our Travel Life, Packing Tips, Photo Tips, Travel Tips

Ten Years Traveling: Anniversary Tips and Tidbits

September 27, 2020September 20, 2020 by Kristin Henning
20 Reasons we travel

Since September 2010, we’ve been world travelers. To mark this 10-year anniversary, we review our odyssey with some prime examples of our most memorable travel experiences, surprise finds, lessons learned, and pictures taken.

Categories Our Travel Life, Travel Tips

A Traveler not Traveling: Guide to Sheltering at Home

March 31, 2020March 28, 2020 by Kristin Henning
Guide to shelter at home

A traveler not traveling offers a guide to sheltering at home. Ironically, preparedness and isolation at home resemble traveling. Here’s how to cope.

Categories Our Travel Life, Resources, Travel Tips

Boomers’ Travel Bucket List

December 20, 2020February 11, 2020 by Tom Bartel
tiger kahna national park india

Bucket list destinations from several of our Boomer travel blogger friends.

Categories Our Travel Life

20 Reasons We Keep On Traveling

September 7, 2020August 13, 2019 by Kristin Henning
Why we travel. The romance of train stations.

The benefits of traveling the world never occurred to us when we started traveling in 2010. We still love to travel. Here are the facets of travel that make us happiest: nature, history, people, adventure, arts…and the unexpected.

Categories Active Travel, Arts and Culture, Eat Drink Stay, History Travel, Nature and Wildlife, Our Travel Life, Travel Tips, Uncategorized

10 Couples Travel Lessons a la Kris and Tom

November 9, 2019May 19, 2019 by Kristin Henning
Couples travel lessons

Unwittingly, I’ve become an authority on couples travel. So here are my tips for sane traveling as a pair…and other miscellaneous lessons learned from our life on the road.

Categories Our Travel Life, Packing Tips, Resources

10 Things I’ve Learned from Traveling

January 20, 2022May 6, 2019 by Tom Bartel
japanese tourists

Here are a few things I’ve learned about traveling pretty constantly for the last nine years. Some are useful, but most are not. They’re just observations. I’m sure you have your own.

Categories Our Travel Life, Packing Tips, Resources

A Dog Bites, a Travel Clinic Delivers

December 29, 2022May 3, 2019 by Kristin Henning
Dog attack dog bite management, travel insurance

A dog bite in Hanoi led to numerous doctor appointments. But advance care and rabies vaccinations at our local travel clinic saved the day, as did having our annual travel insurance program in place.

Categories Asia, Cambodia, Our Travel Life, Travel Tips, Vietnam Tags travel insurance

Some Thoughts on Traveling Past 60

April 26, 2022April 26, 2019 by Tom Bartel
Kris and Tom Peru

Traveling after 60. Senior travel. Running away. Whatever you want to call it, it’s what is keeping us young.

Categories Our Travel Life, Travel Tips

15 Travel Books for Your Reading Pleasure

April 10, 2020April 23, 2019 by Tom Bartel
face of asia Henri Cartier Bresson

My favorite travel and travel photography books.

Categories Blogs and Experts, France, Japan, Our Travel Life, Spain, United States Tags books
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