All Blog Posts Tagged 'packing' (25)

The World on your Shoulders

Over the past year, I experienced a lot of wonderful things as a result of saving and planning for my upcoming journey. Once I committed to a direction, I found it really easy to cut out the luxuries in my life that I thought I needed, and live an incredibly simple life, originally as a means to save. As I traded gym memberships for a cinder block and expensive… Continue

Added by Brandon James on January 31, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

10 Tips on How To Save Money while having an Awesome vacation!

Of course it's always a breath taking experience especially if you are venturing into a new place you have never been to before. But, when you run out of cash, that will be a different story, and you will be jeopardizing the purpose of your trip- that is to enjoy while you're at it! So I will give you 10 helpful tips on how to go out on a journey savoring the moment while at the same time being money-wise.

1. Book your plane ticket in advance.

Once you have a fixed… Continue

Added by Roberto Jose D. Celdran on October 10, 2009 at 12:04am — No Comments

How to manage your finances on the road

The Gist...

Travelling for any period of time rules out a one fit all solution so you’re going to have to use a bit of a mixture of techniques:

1. Keep a small emergency fund with you. Split this between traveler’s cheques & cash.

2. Withdraw cash as you need it and to fit into your weekly budgeting system, but… Continue

Added by Kev on February 25, 2009 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Why should travellers care about Geotags?

The Gist...

Geotagging is a cool new way to organise your photos based on GPS data. To do it you need a GPS enabled camera (or a lot of time to manually enter GPS co-ords for each of your pictures).

Obvioulsy the… Continue

Added by Kev on February 24, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments