Heading overseas anytime soon? Wondering how you'll stay in touch with family and friends back home while you're away? If you don't have an international data plan and don't plan on unlocking your phone, Wi-Fi will become your new best friend while abroad — and you'll probably require a messaging app.
Read MoreGood road trip films? They're full of Clark Griswolds strapping old dead ladies to the roofs of station wagons; of dimwitted Tommy Callahans trying their darndest to sell break pads across the Midwest; of buddies riding across South America on their motorcycles, discovering injustice in the world.
Read MoreWhen it comes to traveling full-time, there are many people out there who think it just isn't a possibility for them, who sit and wonder how anyone finds the time or money to make that kind of life possible. But the truth is that in today's connected world it's actually easier than ever to jump the 9-5 ship and head overseas for as long as you'd like.
Read MoreI have experienced a number of twists and turns during my 24 years on this earth so far, and many of those twists and turns have been pleasantly unanticipated. Many of them have also involved me traveling to destinations far and wide that I truly could not have imagined myself journeying to a decade ago — heck, even five years ago in some cases.
Read MorePlanning a trip can be a headache. This is true when just two or three people are involved, but even more so when you start talking about groups of five, six, seven, and beyond.
Read MoreMagicians may never reveal how they do their tricks and reporters may not give away their sources, but I don't have too much of an issue revealing the websites that provide me with travel inspiration on the regular.
Read MoreChristmas and New Year's Eve and Day have come and gone, and I bet you thought the holidays were over, didn't you? Well, guess again, because The New York Times just released its list of "52 Places to Go in 2018" and I'm partying like it's 1999 all over again.
Read MoreShould I be looking at places other than Airbnb when planning trips? That's the question I find myself asking as 2018 gets underway.
Read MoreIt's been some kind of year, let me tell you — and I mean that personally and on a much grander scale. We aren't here to talk about my move from Ann Arbor to Grand Rapids, or my adventures with Uber over the summer, or those stressful days before I secured a full-time job as a reporter in September, though. No, we're here to dissect, to some degree, the year that was for this blog, Logan's Run.
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