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Topping the list of international travel anxieties is whether your cellular phone bill might be adversely impacted while traveling in another country. Our recent trip to Greece brought up this very concern. We’ve all heard horror stories of Roaming Charges Gone Wild! Mine involved the beloved if technologically unsophisticated older cousin from Mexico City who acquired a new iphone prior …
Deep thoughts from our recent travel: Agora = Greek for marketplace Phobia = Greek for fear A close friend from childhood works in finance and earned his MBA but keeps the vast majority of his savings in CDs and treasuries that barely keep up with inflation. His wife saw her parents lose a significant portion of their net worth (either …
On our recent three-week trip through Greece, I chose not to bring my electric shaver. The dirtbag traveler in me, the one that takes pleasure out of proportion in packing as little as necessary as lightly as possible, wanted to ditch the added few ounces and volume the shaver would add to my pack. The scientist in me wanted to …
23 years ago, I took my first international trip as a backpacker through Europe. It was my baguettes, bananas and drinkable yogurt tour, since these were the foods I could afford as I made my way through some pricey countries over a couple of months. One of the highlights was Greece – I spent a couple of nights in Athens, …
Bringing order to chaos and stamping out small fires as they occur in the emergency department turn out to be great preparation for family travel. It’s like any other shift, only it stains your regular clothes. As I write this on a plane in mid-June, we have just completed our second multi-generational family trip of the summer. The goal was …
Checked bag fees and lines are for suckers. Secret to eternal youth: less stress + less back pain = greater stamina. Missed connections / delays will never deprive you of clean underwear. Join a secret society: carry on travelers share a self-sufficiency gene that is the key to evolution. I’m a control freak. Keeping my bag in reach is one …
I was one lucky son of a gun: 22 years old, graduating college, accepted to medical school. I had an airline ticket (thank you, generous aunt and uncle), a Eurorail pass (thank you, savings from college gig as a Sunday school teacher), and a ginormous new Eagle Creek backpack bought on sale (if only I’d known that used is the …