Travel is Glamorous…In Retrospect
I had read a great quote somewhere recently by Mark Twain. It goes something along the lines of “Travel is Glamorous in Retrospect” When I saw Dave doing our laundry in a little bucket in our coco hut bungalow, this quote came perfectly to mind.
Top 5 Memorable Massages in the World
Yesterday we had our first massage in India. It was a memorable experience and you can read about it here. We had the full body Ayurvedic Massage will therapeudic oils. I am sure that we will be having more as we go through our travels. It made us think about the other memorable massages that we have had on our past travels. We love getting a massage, it is a luxury that we cannot afford to have regularly at home, so we take advantage of it wherever we go. Some experiences have been better than others and some stand our in our memories better than others. Here is a list of our Top 5 most memorable massages
The Beautiful Backwaters of India – Video
Enjoy this video of our Backwater Houseboat tour in Kerala India. For 24 hours we had our own private boat, chef and tour of the Backwaters of Aleppey. Nothing gives you a first hand view of travel like a video.
Make Money with Your Travel Blog Holiday Sale
NomadicMatt’s excellent ebook is on sale for the Holidays! We are now traveling the world fulfilling our dream of being full time travelers. It wasn’t always this way. We had loved to travel, but had to keep coming home to work and save money between trips.
Jet Lag, It Get’s You Every Time
Jet Lag. We all get it. There isn’t any fighting it. We always think that we can beat it, but it gets the best of us. Jet Lag get’s Dave and I every time. We always have these grandiose plans of starting adventures when we arrive. We think that we will sleep for a couple of hours and get up feeling refreshed after a long flight. It never works out that way and no matter what we do it takes two to three days to start feeling like your old self again. Here are the best ways that we have found cut the time that it takes to recover from jet lag.
We Are Back in the Travel Saddle Baby
On the first day upon arrival in India I awoke to have a cold shower. The room was dense with humidity that the ceiling fan was trying desperately to cut through. As I turned on the tiny drizzle from the shower the ants on the walls scurried to safety. We even were given a bar of soap and two towels to our surprise, but we had to use our own toilet paper. A scoop and a bucket were supplied to rinse we assume. At least I hope it was because I couldn’t make the shower work. So I filled the bucket with water from the tap and used that scoop to pour the cold deluge over my head and body. The water ran to a drain beside the toilet and the entire bathroom was soaked. I hadn’t been this happy in months!
AccessMyID – Peace of Mind for your Travel Documents
During our previous travels we have made sure that we have had all of the necessary documents photocopied in duplicate. If something gets lost or stolen we knew that we had all of our vital papers tucked away safely in another bag. However, if our documents were stolen, the thief now had access to very important and private information. This year we have decided to add another layer of security for our documents. AccessMyID is a website that gives you a simple interface to upload and store your important documents safely and securely.
Cycling is Such a Great Idea – But can Everybody Have a Bike
Cycling is such a great utilitarian activity many of us take it for granted. And there are people that have one or two bicycles for each different kind of activity. Many of us are so fortunate, living in an affluent society like Europe or North America, to find so many bicycle stores and other suppliers of bicycles in every neighbourhood. Yet we fail to realize how lucky we are. Many of us simply don’t know how hard it can be for a person living in most parts of the third world to have access to a simple two wheeler. People who earn about one-tenth of our hourly wages in a whole week will have to pay the same price as we do to buy the same bike in their places. It is simply not fair.
It’s About Time, India Here We Come
We have been Blogging for months about this day and it has finally come. We are off to India! Even up until a few days before leaving, it didn’t feel real. But the reality is, we are going to travel and explore this beautiful planet. We will be spending our days in some of the most beautiful destinations on earth. We both love discovering new places, meeting new people, trekking through jungles, climbing mountains and we really enjoying doing all of this together.
My 3 Best Kept Travel “Adventure” Secrets
We were recently nominated to participate in Tripbase’s “3 Best Kept Travel Secrets” game by our great Twitter friend, Isabelle of @IsabellesTravel. So here are our Travel Adventure Secrets. The Pinnacles of Borneo, The White Desert of Egypt and Huacachina Peru. These destinations on 3 different continents are some of our favorite adventures. Enjoy these photos and an overview of what exactly each one is about.
10 Things We Learned Before Traveling
Little did I know that I would already be living life as a backpacker before leaving Canada. We have been spending our evenings at the local coffee shop catching up on emails and blog posts, negotiating with advertisers and finalizing the last of our banking. Well, even in a developed country like Canada problems can arise. While we are traveling, we expect we expect little mishaps along the way, but to have them start before we even began is a little bit frustrating. Here are some of the things that we have learned while not having an Internet connection at our beck and call.
What We Have Been Reading Lately
We follow many wonderful Bloggers and try to check out their great posts regularly. (Thank God for RSS feeds) It has been a busy few weeks out there in the land of Travel Blogging and here are a few posts that we enjoyed, caught our attention, gave us important information,or caused a bit of a stir.
How to Travel the World
We have received a few emails lately asking us how we travel the world. People want to know what we do in our day to day lives to save and budget and people want to know how we afford it. Many people are so afraid to take a chance to follow their dreams that they forget to live. As travelers, we view life as living, not the amount of things that you have in your possession. If you are feeling the same way, you just may want to check out the links that we have listed above.
This Weeks Adventure’s in Blogging
The big news is that we are starting a monthly newsletter while we are away. Make sure to sign up for it at the top right hand corner of this page! All you have to do is leave your email address and first name and you will receive a monthly update from us. You can unsubscribe at any time. We won’t be doing these “week in review” posts once we start our travels, but we really do enjoy sharing our successes and failures of running the blog. It is in that newsletter that we will share recaps of what we have done with the website and what we have done on our travels. Plus, we will be giving some tips, tricks and insider scoops of our travels. Along with some more in depth articles regarding our experiences.
Your Own Two Hands
wasn’t born in Bangladesh. I was born in a developed country as a member of the racial majority. I’ve had amazing parents and friends who have always supported me. I’ve received educations among the best in the world – both practical and academic [not that I exhibit it 
]. I have the opportunity to travel! And I’ve realized at a young age that happiness stems from being a good person, not making stacks of money. I humbly say all of this, but I say it to point out a basic assumption – that I’m one of the luckiest people in the world.
Holiday Gifts for the Adventure Traveler
There are common traits between adventure travelers, luxury travelers, green travelers and budget travelers except when it comes to holiday gift ideas. While the world is slowly coming out of a recession, it’s really the thought that counts when giving travel-related gifts this year. In order to help you find a great gift, we’ve worked with popular travel websites, based on their niche and expertise, to put together a holiday travel gift guide. We encourage you to visit the other participating travel blogs for even more gift ideas – you’re sure to find a few ideas that will be perfect for the traveler on your gift list!
I Can’t Believe We Are Going to India
I can’t believe we are going to India. In our minds, you haven’t truly traveled until you have gone to India. All the real hard core backpackers go there for a tough, character building, frustrating and yet enlightening travel.
Nomadic Matts: Make Money With Your Travel Blog
It wasn’t until this past April that we actually looked into the business of Blogging. We stumbled upon it really, we were looking into travel writing and how to submit to magazines and newspapers. As we followed links from one blog to another looking for information, we came across a great travel website called NomadicMatt.com We have learned a great deal in the past 6 months and one of the biggest contributors to our progress has been by following Matthew Kepnes word of wisdom in How to Make Money With Your Travel Blog.
The Misadventures of Pre-Travel Planning
It’s Monday, you know what that means. Time to tell you the mis-adventures of Dave and Deb preparing for India and how things are going at theplanetd. Let me start by talking to you about our electronics.
The Impact of NGO’s and Voluntourism
I am a strong believer that travel can be done better, as can anything else, if we come up with new and creative solutions to the negative impacts that come as a side product of the actions that we take. I think tourism can and has been a negative force in many areas and I feel the same way about Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) yet I have my feet in both of these worlds.
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