Destinations

Our Hotel Tip series offers accommodation recommendations for both budget & luxury hotels we have stayed in and personally recommend. This week: Hotel Casablanca, Times Square, New York.

In this exclusive post for our newsletter subscribers we reveal our beach project including over a thousand shoes, hundreds of toothbrushes and more!

This week we provide a little inside look at just who is behind the editing of our new book!

As we arrive in the late afternoon light, the scene is more how we would have imagined a trip to Mongolia, not Phonsavan, Laos. Motorcycle riders with scarves over their faces to block the dust, the cityscape here is barren but you see from the construction that there is prosperity in its future. But we’re here to see the mysterious Plain of Jars.

Our Great American Road Trip 2011 is taking us from New York City to New Orleans and we’d love you to follow along! Today we were in Manhattan, New York – with the pictures to prove it…Enjoy!

Day Two in New Orleans brought us from alligators in Louisiana’s wetlands to live jazz on Frenchman Street!

The past three weeks traveling on this NYC2NOLA road trip have been so much fun, and making our ultimate destination New Orleans turned out to be exactly what we needed. As expected when having so much fun, time flew and we found ourselves yesterday with a giant list of places we still wanted to explore so we decided to maximize our last day in the city by renting bikes from The American Bike Rental & Tour Company.

Volunteer for a month, a day, or even over Skype in the Dominican Republic with the newly formed Community Connection International. CEO and Founder Angela Bennett talks about creating the organization, her Service for Aid model, plus gives great tips on budget travel in the Dominican Republic.

On our way to the canals of Xochimilco where we took a ride in one of the beautiful trajineras (wooden boats), we strolled through the main square where these three Mexicans were sitting on a bench watching the world go by.

We’ve been very lucky so far when it comes to events – we always seem to  be in the right place at the right time.  We happened to be in …