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Digital Detox: How to Put Down Your Devices and Enjoy Your Vacation

Digital Detox: How to Put Down Your Devices and Enjoy Your Vacation

Are you comfortable with the amount of time you spend looking at your phone? Between your cell phone, computer and tablet, what percentage of your day is spent staring at a screen? While we frequently justify the time we spend on our devices during the week—for work,...

How to Turn “Work from Home” into “Work from Destination”

How to Turn “Work from Home” into “Work from Destination”

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...

10 Virtual Destinations to Visit from Your Couch

10 Virtual Destinations to Visit from Your Couch

Staying home doesn’t mean you can’t experience the world. Here are 10 spectacular destinations to check out on Google Maps. 1. The Colosseum Located in Rome, Italy, The Colosseum is the oldest surviving amphitheater in the world, built around 70 BC. At the time it was...

Best Travel Apps for 2020

Best Travel Apps for 2020

Advancements in technology have completely changed the face of travel in the past decade, and new travel apps are continuing to make booking travel, planning trips, eating abroad, splitting costs, and tracking your movements easier every day. My favorite apps going...

3 Tips for Protecting Your Privacy Abroad

3 Tips for Protecting Your Privacy Abroad

News about rampant hacking and identity theft has left the general public feeling a little vulnerable with their personal information. It’s so easy to be in the dark about how to protect yourself from identity fraud, and it can be scary to think about traveling with...

The 4 Best Apps for Combating Jet Lag

The 4 Best Apps for Combating Jet Lag

Jet lag can be one of the fastest killers of a great vacation. When you only have a few days in a new country, you don’t want to waste precious time sleeping. It isn’t always easy to recover when you’re jumping time zones. The fatigue, disorientation, and even nausea...

Web-based Symptom Checkers – Part 2: Better to Know Than to Guess

Web-based Symptom Checkers – Part 2: Better to Know Than to Guess

Physicians in practice for many years will tell you that upon hearing a diagnosis, the first question that many patients ask is: “Is it serious?” In fact, most people do not really care about what their illness is called, so long as they can expect a quick and total...

Web-based Symptom Checkers: Travelers’ Aide or Not?

Web-based Symptom Checkers: Travelers’ Aide or Not?

Travelers to remote locations with limited or no options for professional medical care often have access to the Internet and thus the ability to seek out web-based tools to diagnose conditions and recommend medical triage. Even those in the comfort of their own homes...