Posts Tagged ‘trip’

The Racetrack, Death Valley
Editor’s Note: Be sure to read the latest traveler reviews and photos of the Death Valley day trip over on the main Viator site.
Ghost towns, mysterious moving rocks, acrid salt flats, sweeping sand dunes, chiseled canyons, surreal landscapes, and a posh desert castle. Death Valley was just the sort of quirky place I was looking to spend a few, cherished vacation days. (more…)
By Julie Schwietert Collazo from Novoarte’s Travel Blog

Boy with ball in Yazd, Iran. Photo by kavanadb.
All trips require preparation.
Some of you reading this are obsessive planners. You buy more guidebooks than you could ever read, cross-checking, highlighting, circling, dog-earing, and list-making about all the places you’ll stay, eat, and sightsee. You scope online forums for travel advice, putting a black (more…)
By Tammie Dooley from Solo Road Trip
This is the second post by Tammie on the topic of solo road trips. Read her first here: Why You Should Go On A Solo Road Trip.

Driving in Yazd, Iran. Photo by kavanadb.
So you’re at least considering a solo road trip? Good! First, realize it’s not brain surgery. The logistics are simple, subjective, and subject to change – a beautiful thing. And keep in mind, SOLO (more…)
By Tammie Dooley from Solo Road Trip.

Lone monk in Koya-san, Japan. Photo by jwongyboy.
In the United States, we’re a nation teetering on social burn-out. The multitude of devices designed to bind us together like links in a chain has made it difficult to go to the bathroom and be alone. Articles on efficiency are prolific: how to cut a minute off some task, make your morning shower more efficient, and speed up this (more…)
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On Friday 19th December I took my EasyJet flight to Schiphol (AMS) airport in Amsterdam to meet Dorota. We would have a nights rest before we set off on our 2,746km roadtrip to Poland and back.
We got to Tychy in Poland around 2100 after 1,157km and an 11 hour drive. The best part of the drive there was driving from perfectly flat roads in Germany to passing through the old border control and entering (more…)