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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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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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 [...]
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7 Travel Taboos
We’ve all heard the phrase “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Back in 387 A.D. two saints (Ambrose and Augustine) were having a not-so-saintly argument about handling local customs when priests travelled. (One thought fasting on Saturday was right, the other thought the day should be Friday.) Various sources attribute the memorable bit [...]
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Beating Jet Lag
Even the most experienced world travelers can experience jet lag. The medical term for jet lab is desynchronosis – literally, being out of sync. That’s a perfect way to describe the fatigue, insomnia, irritability that are the most common symptoms that occur when you fly across multiple time zones. The cause of jet lag is [...]
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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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What to do once you’re through…Airport Security
Whew….made it through security…all systems go..plenty of time…now what? Know your Airport Back in the planning process, look at the particular airports you will be traveling through and time your layovers. What I mean is that if you are in some podunk airport with nothing but a lame gift shop and not-to ergonomically correct chairs, [...]
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Getting Through Airport Security
Getting Through Airport Security Today we return for the final parts to Making Travel Easy and Fun! Enjoy! First of all, let me say, I LOVED the movie, “Up in The Air”. George Clooney’s addiction to movement, to the “lifestyle” of travel, and ohhhhh especially his love of airports was infectious. I don’t travel weekly [...]
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