Tag Archives | foreign travel

Traveler Beware: Avoiding Common Travel Scams

One of the best parts about adventure travel is relaxing, trying new things, and reveling in unfamiliar people and places. But getting conned isn’t part of the “local color” anyone really wants to experience. Even the most experienced travelers can fall for a scam if they let themselves get distracted, rushed, or overtired. Many travel [...]

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People to People Connection

People to People Connections Today, I want to tell you about my experience in the village of Ravi Ravi on the island of Beqa off the coast of Fiji. I want to tell you about a humble, wonderful man who opened his heart and home to us. We were there to check out a dive [...]

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Who Needs Travel Insurance?

Do you really need travel insurance? Maybe – maybe not. Trouble is, you won’t know that you need it until something goes wrong. Imagine that you’ve dreamed, saved and planned for the trip of a lifetime. You’re on your way, and something goes terribly wrong. It can start as something minor – like a delayed [...]

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Duct Tape vs My Video Housing

Some Things I’ve Learned about the Uses of Duct Tape Writing blogs is an education. Why, just today, I learned some interesting and important things about “duck” or “duct” tape. The first and of course most important thing is that the California Energy Commission says, “Duct tape is good for many things, but not for [...]

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Finding Free Adventure

If there’s one thing we like, it’s finding a great, free way to soak up the local culture and scenery in a new part of the world. Sure, some adventures come with a price tag – but others are free. How do you find them? If you’re looking for free things to do before you [...]

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Making Travel Easy and Fun….Coming Home

Coming Home from your Vacation We have “officially” finished the 15 or was it 16 part series on Making Travel Easy and Fun and we hope you have found some tidbits to make the nuts and bolts of travel planning…well…..easy and fun. But this series never really ends and I realized that while travel attitude [...]

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Humility in Travel…Just when you think you’re the Expert

The Itinerary Last night I returned home from a five week jaunt through a couple of destinations. It began as a simple 11 day trip to Costa Rica to check out one of the top dive locales in the world, Cocos Island. It turned into a 31 day sprint from Montana to Los Angeles to [...]

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Get an Online Personal Travel Assistant

Nothing annoys a budget-minded traveler more than finding out that the price of the trip fell after they bought their own ticket. To add insult to injury, many travelers don’t realize that most U.S. airlines actually have a “guaranteed airfare policy” that would let them claim a refund for the price difference. Wouldn’t it be [...]

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Travel Attitude- Final Post in Making Travel Fun and Easy

Travel Attitude Its All Between Your Ears Someone once said that the true definition of luck is where preparation meets opportunity.  I like that a lot. And there may be no better application of that definition than when we travel.  You see, making travel easy and fun actually comes down to two things: organization and [...]

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Avoiding the Stress of Arriving

On Arrival For many people this is a very stressful part of the trip.  It’s the “oh no, is someone going to meet me and if not what the heck do I do?”  For all of Live-Adventurously’s trips we meet our guests at the airport so they know they will see our smiling and comforting [...]

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