by Danielle Owen | Jan 12, 2021 | News & Trends, Travel Tips & Resources
Americans abroad don’t always have the nicest reputation with locals, especially at many of the most popular tourist destinations for U.S. travelers. This reputation can be boiled down to ethnocentrism, which people from the U.S. seem to feel more strongly than...
by Danielle Owen | Dec 22, 2020 | Destinations, Dining Out, Food, Drink & Diet
One of the greatest ways to explore new cultures is to try their native foods and drinks. A culture’s wine can say a lot about them and, unlike vineyards in the United States, can hold a whole lot of history. While going to a bar might not be the healthiest...
by Danielle Owen | Nov 25, 2020 | Adventure Travel, Featured, Fitness, Fitness, Balance & Wellness, News & Trends, Travel Tips & Resources
International travel came grinding to a halt in 2020, crushing the vacation plans of people all over the world. Parents who’d been looking to experience new cultures with their kids were suddenly left marooned inside their own homes instead. With the inaccessibility...
by Danielle Owen | Nov 6, 2020 | Featured, Health & Safety, News & Trends, Travel Tips & Resources
I touched down on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula in June during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in most places around the world. I’d flown from Brazil to Florida in March in response to my mother’s panicked frenzy and wound up quarantined in my parents’ home for way...
by Danielle Owen | Oct 23, 2020 | News & Trends, Packing & Preparing, Tech, Travel Tips & Resources
With more people working from home than ever before, the travelers among us are asking themselves why they’re sitting in their living room and not at a beachfront cafe in the Caribbean. I didn’t have a remote job when I started traveling over five years ago. Every...