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from Tom and Kris, based on more than 15 years of full-time travel.
Our goal is simple: we want to help you travel more and better for less money.
Our blog and newsletter are focused on exactly that: how you can get where you want to go as easily as possible, and how can you have the richest experience once you're there. It's our pleasure to offer personalized travel advice, helping our readers sort through travel decisions and providing our best, tried and true travel tips.
We've been sharing our experience since we started traveling full time in 2010.
Join us as we navigate planning of our first travel to Alaska. With so many possibilities, we can all use a good planning guide to help us on our way. When to go to Alaska, how to get there, and what to see and do.
Enjoying the outdoor life in Östergötland Sweden involves meeting local entrepreneurs who balance business concerns with environmental protection. Here is the future of sustainable travel.
Famous Ben Bulben mountain can be seen from the gravestone of the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, author of the poem “Under Ben Bulben,” which features his burial instructions. “Horseman, pass by.”
After living in Barcelona in 1978 and returning dozens of times, here is our guide to the best things to do in Barcelona — Gaudí, Catalan art, food tours, paella in Barceloneta, and more.
Japan is home to 23 UNESCO World Heritage sites: 19 cultural and four natural. See all listed here with links to those we've visited.
Our first visit to the Big Bend National Park area of south Texas: what to see, what to do, where to stay. Hiking, hotels, honky-tonks.