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The hospitality business is a competitive one, and as more and more websites come on line to help you find your next hotel room, it is not getting any easier to track down the cheapest rates.
Enter BookingAdvisor.com, a free and independent search engine that scours over 30 other hotel booking [...]

My globetrotting friend and I have decided against a backpacking trip in exchange for a driving one.

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As much as I encourage spontaneity, there is one thing I refuse to do on a whim, lodging.
We’ve all heard horror stories of last-minute hostels from hell, bug-ridden hotel beds, and bed and breakfasts that, despite their quaint websites, are run-down and far from anything and everything on the itinerary. [...]

I have a few opinions on travel: one should learn some historical background to understand the culture of today, one should try their best to speak the native language as to not “lose things in translation,” and one should never expect a place or its people to adjust to one’s own way of life.
For as [...]

Almost all of my American friends I made while studying abroad were majoring in international relations. At Syracuse University, like most others, it is a broad field, incorporating law, organizations, security, diplomacy, political economy, and international communication in each geographic region of the world.
As a a magazine journalism and modern foreign language major, I was [...]

For the main course, young and old enjoy the quintessential Mexican comfort food, pozole.

Traditional Chilean food, although simple, has a medley of flavors.

Although an optimistic nation, the U.S. is nowhere near the happiest.

It was the Bardini Garden, and we were at that moment in time, it’s sole visitors.

I promise I don’t only read travelogues and memoirs by women, it just happens to be that I’ve consequently read many of the sort :). Still, there’s certain safety concerns and precautions that I would assume cloud the mind of female globetrotters more so than their male counterparts. This book, Expat: Women’s True Tales of [...]