Author: The JetSetter Team
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Tahiti vs. Fiji
Tahiti Spend some time online looking at photos of the sprawling beaches and soaring mountains of this island chain and you’ll be ready to slit your wrist if you can’t depart on vacation immediately. The great thing about pictures is they can’t even justice to the reality. This is a land of dramatic island scenery,…
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Leisure Travel – Don't Skimp When it Comes to the Guide Book
You”ve been saving and looking forward to it all year – two spectacular weeks in Europe will be the leisure travel adventure of a lifetime. You know you should really take a look at a guide book of some sort and your brother-in-law has a three-year old copy from his trip he”s glad to loan…
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Healing Yeast Infection
The following personal insights into Ecuadoran expat living come from Newleu Purnell, courtesy of the website TransitionsAbroad.com. Purnell claims that a single person can live comfortably in Ecuador on $250 to $400 monthly. Say you like to eat out often and take road trips on the weekend, and you probably would have to bump that…
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Tourist Scams for the Unwary Business Traveler
Business travelers and tourists alike are all to often easy marks for the sneaky tourist scammer, especially in Europe, where scamming the idiot Americans has become something of a continental pastime. And while the business traveler likes to think of himself as not naive or trusting enough to fall for any of these shenanigans, people…
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Free Travel Information – Don't Book a Bad Bus Tour
Exactly what does the price quote include? If it’s only transportation, for how many nights and days? Are meals included? How many? How about admissions to attractions? What kind of transportation, in particular, will be used? Don’t be the unfortunate soul who expects a classy highway star when the actual vehicle will be a road…
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Marco Polo's 24 Year Vacation
Where exactly did Marco Polo go? An easier question to answer would be where didn’t he go? Polo’s family adventure began even before young Marco hit the high seas. In 1266, his father and uncle found their way to the court of the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, in the location of present day Beijing. Khan…
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Surviving the International Public Toilet Scene
Our purpose here is not to turn your stomach but prepare you, if you wander very far afield from the beaten track, for the fact that amenities like plumbing and toilet paper can disappear in the blink of an eye. Still, there are options besides holding it until you burst. No matter where in the…
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Peace of Mind on the Road is a Loaded Money Belt
It’s not just for Jason Bourne any more. When traveling abroad, a money belt is an excellent way for the international traveler to achieve a level of security and peace of mind perhaps not otherwise found. For those in the reading audience unaccustomed to the travel habits of European men of mystery, here’s a quick…
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Dear American Airlines…
Sometimes it’s fun to dip into the American Airlines mailbag and read through letters aimed at a company recently named one of the fifteen most hated in America for 2010, and the least popular airline in – the galaxy? Is that going to far? Consider the following sampling of venom posted on Amplicate.com. The most…
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Living Everywhere and Nowhere – Billy and Akaisha Kaderli
Few of us have the nerve to, for all practical purposes, drop the pretense of international borders and embark upon life as citizens of the world, living everywhere and nowhere. It’s ever so easy to become locked into the routine of job and paycheck, job and paycheck, job and paycheck, a pattern interrupted only by…