Because today is all about finding a new remote destination that is perhaps not so easy to get to. The following is not a list of the “most remote” places on the globe by any stretch, but it may just give you some new ideas or inspire you to seek out another faraway place. Even if you don’t plan on traveling to the ends of the Earth, hopefully you’ll learn something new.
Read MoreRelocating to another part of the world is an exciting, yet exceedingly daunting, prospect for most people in search of greener pastures, but the process is by no means impossible. In fact, if you’re looking to move abroad, there are actually more resources than ever out there to help get you started. So, if that dream job happens to be located overseas or if you’re simply looking for a new adventure (or maybe trying to escape the clutches of an incoming authoritarian regime), take heart: you can make this happen!
Read MoreRegardless of what you had planned at the beginning of 2020, it’s pretty likely you’ve traveled far less this year than you originally thought you would. Maybe you got a quick trip in way back in January or February, but now it’s been months since you’ve gone anywhere, and you’re about to go completely bonkers if that isn’t soon rectified.
Read MoreArgentina is a big place — the second largest country in South America, in fact, and the eighth largest in the world. And that’s why the six weeks I spent there back in 2014 weren’t nearly enough to get a glimpse of all of the country’s 23 provinces — but if I ever went back, there is one province I’d make sure not to miss.
Read MoreIt could easily be argued that the U.S. is near the top of the list when it comes to countries that are so contained within their own bubbles that people tend not to think about the way life is lived in other places. That in mind, here are some social norms from other parts of the world that may sound a little odd to American ears.
Read MoreCompanies aren’t legally required to offer their employees vacation time, but more than 90 percent of all full-time employees working in the private sector receive paid vacation. Why? Because even your stingy boss knows that a burnt-out employee is just about as useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop. It’s a universal truth: everybody needs a break now and then.
Read MoreWhen winter comes around, there’s one question that never fails to pop into my head: why do people enjoy traveling (or living, for that matter) in places where the cold regularly punishes their faces? Plenty of people who live in the Midwest, as I do, deal with the snow and the cold for maybe four to five months out of the year, but why, oh why, would anyone choose to live in a state of perpetual winter?
Read MoreNot everyone is afforded the opportunity to become a foreign exchange student, and even when the option exists, studying abroad just does not appeal to some people. But if you're one of those individuals out there thinking about expanding your cranium overseas and you wonder, among other things, what living with a host family might be like, you've come to the right place.
Read MoreIt's with an open mind that I scour the globe, looking for the most far-flung and unique places I could possibly, maybe, someday visit. And in that vein, I offer you a list of world capitals — some you may have heard of; others probably not — for the simple sake of putting them on your radar. Who knows, maybe you'll latch onto one of them and find yourself asking, "Why not?"
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