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 [...]
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 [...]
Seven Steps to Stress Free Travel

For some people, travel is inherently stressful. For most of us, though, stress happens when someone or something throws a monkey wrench into our plans. Betty Thesky, a flight attendant, blogger, and author offers some great tips on reducing or eliminating travel-related stress. 1. Book the first flight of the day. The morning flights have [...]
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 [...]
Don’t Wait for Your Dreams

You would think that after 24 years of diving and 7500 dives I would not need courage to jump in the water. Yet February 20th, 2010 was a scary day for me. Was I diving with man eating sharks or in a 10 knot current or to 400 feet? No, I was about to dive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On The Plane

On Board- Creating Your Sanctuary OMG, I can’t believe I have to sit here for a 10 hour flight..what on earth will I do? If someone said to you, “Ok, you have 10 hours, uninterrupted time, except for the couple of times someone will come and SERVE you dinner and wine” (yep, no cooking, preparing [...]
Money Matters: Borrowing vs. Buying

Shopping for a long-planned vacation is just part of the fun – but there are times when borrowing or renting can be a better bet than buying. Most dive operators (including our dive company Global Dive Expeditions) have gear available for rental. How do you decide if borrowing or buying gear is right for you? [...]
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