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Friends always ask for tips on how we do it, so we’ll try to answer some of the questions that come up to help with your trip planning:
- Where to go? How to choose?
- Do you need a tour? Would you prefer to be independent?
- Can custom tour planning be affordable?
- What to pack? (We really think it should be one carry-on each!)
- Need packing tips to deal with today's security alerts?
- What about safety and health? Do I need shots?
- What are the people like?
- What is a visa? Do I need one?
- What about that foreign money? And the language?
The world is a wonderful place--more welcoming than you probably think it is if all you do is watch the news at home. If you're open to people, they will invite you into their homes and hearts. Let us be your cyberguides to the world.
After three years I'm still saying we're learning this web site business, and we want you to follow along. We've been adding lots of international travel tips and stories about destinations, so the best way for you to find something on our site might just be to search for it.
and let google find our page on it for you...
...That's what we have to do now. Really!
I've always said all of our travels were preparing us for something... and we're still searching for that, but... What are we doing while we're searching? We're visiting more countries and adding all the time to this website, so please come back and visit often.
Grab your mouse and start clicking. Hopefully our international travel tips and stories will inspire you. Perhaps some of the destinations we’ve been to will click with you, and you’ll be hooked, wanting to visit them for yourself. That is our mission... to inspire everyone to experience other countries and cultures... because we believe that travel promotes understanding and understanding promotes peace.
Join us, Judy and Mark 
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| International Travel Tips - To Help With Your Dream Trip Our international travel tips - grouped by category to help you find the tip that will help with YOUR trip.... trip planning, hotels, health tips, budget tips and more... |
| Tips on Visas and Passports You're responsible for visas and passports when you travel abroad. It's up to you to know the rules for each country. Tips on your passport needs and when you need a visa. |
| Your Custom Tour Planning List for International Travel What to do; where to look; what to decide--a custom tour planning list will help plan and get ready for your custom tour. |
| A Custom Tour -- How We Planned Bhutan, China and Other International Trips Tips on how to plan a custom tour. Travel with a small group of friends allows you to see what you want; have more flexibility; and it doesn't have to be much more expensive. |
| When To Go On Your Trip? Things You Must Think About When to go? Once you've decided on a destination, you need to research when the weather will be good, when then animals migrate, when the crowds are gone or when the festivals are. |
| A Packing List To Help You Pack Right A packing list helps you get everything you need ready for your trip. What are the basics you need? For hot weather? For cold weather? Medications? Cosmetics? |
| Carry-On Packing Tips -- Not Just Travel Packing Tips Your trip will be more enjoyable if you travel light. Carry-on packing tips on what and how to pack, and our reasons for thinking one carry-on each is best. |
| Travel Security Alert Packing Guide Stay alert to what you can take and where to pack it. With terrorists and plots in the news, our travel security alert packing guide will help you prepare for your flight. |
| Travel Document Checklist A travel document checklist is a good reminder of what you need to take on your trip. Passports and visas, but what else? Our tips... |
| Make A Pre-Departure Checklist A pre-departure checklist will help you remember the things you need to do before you travel. Here are some of our tips. |
| Airport Arrival -- What Happens Now? What to expect upon your airport arrival in a foreign country. |
| Airport Departure -- How to Get Home What to expect for your airport departure from a foreign country. |
| International Travel Health Vaccinations -- Do I Need to Take Shots? Which international travel health vaccinations to get. How much time to allow to get them all and have them effective. |
| International Travel Health Tips Which vaccinations to get, which prescriptions to fill... International travel health tips about diseases to be on the alert for, the water, jet lag and more. |
| Are Malaria Pills Really Necessary? Malaria is a problem in many areas around the world. Don't ignore this. Where to check to see if malaria pills are recommended. Which anti-malarial medication to take. |
| I Do Testimonials for Pepto-Bismol for Travel Health An ounce (or two) of prevention...... but in this case literally..... Pepto-Bismol can help keep you healthy no matter where you travel. |
| Pepto-Bismol in Bhutan for Travel Health Pepto-Bismol keeps us in the "pink" in Bhutan. Lots of red hot chilis, yak butter tea, and yak meat could unsettle your stomach, but not with Pepto-Bismol. |
| Foreign Travel Makes You Learn Foreign travel is a true education. You learn about foods and fashions and cultures. Foreign isn't strange... it's just different. Wonderfully different. |
| Travel Tips on Money Matters How to change money. How to protect your cash and valuables. A few tips on credit cards, ATMs, and tipping. |
| Dealing With A Foreign Language Don't let a foreign language seem like a barrier to travel. Travel with a language guide book, a sense of humor and a willingness to makes mistakes. The locals will love you for trying. |
| Rental Car Travel Tips We love traveling with a rental car. Tips on renting or not. What to expect... questions to ask yourself and the rental car agency before you reserve. |
| Our Country List Enthusiastic travelers keep a country list to keep track of where they've been. Here's ours and links to pages we've written about some of the places we've visited. |
| Europe Travel Tips - Destination Highlights Travel stories about the places we've visited will give you Europe travel tips... to help you plan your trip. |
| Norway... Finding Family and Visiting Friends Finding where your ancestors came from or visiting friends can make a trip much richer. We did both in Norway... Itinerary ideas for driving. |
| Scotland... Finding OUR Scotland Castle MacEwen Trip hook for Scotland? The Scotland Castle MacEwen. Clan history. Travel can make you feel like an explorer and leave you exhilarated when you find unexpected treasures... or your castle. |
| Africa Dream List You dream of Africa..., but it's a BIG continent. Do you want a safari or something else? Our Africa dream list gives you tips and stories to help decide where you want to go. |
| Australian Wine Tasting Road Trip Australia is a big exciting country. Australian wine tasting is fun and easy... a focus makes your trip more interesting. Why not wine tasting? |
| The Island of Borneo? Go Ahead, Explore It! Beautiful beaches, interesting cultures, primeval rain forests, giant flowers, orangutans, proboscis monkeys, pygmy elephants and more. Sounds wild! The island of Borneo has it all. |
| Turtle Islands Borneo We went to Borneo to find orangutans; what we found first was Turtle islands Borneo where Green Turtles rule. |
| Our Botswana Adventure.... To Inspire Yours In truth we've had more than one Botswana adventure... we love Botswana. Fewer tourists give you an old time safari experience. |
| Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, the Pantanal, and Iguazu Falls Brazil is more than Carnival and beaches. See Rio with its beaches and mountains, but there's more. We explored the wild, wild west of the Pantanal and the jungles around Iguazu falls. |
| China -- A Great Little Corner of the World? China is a huge collection of great little corners of the world if you take it city by city. Where to start? Here are our travel tips for a custom tour. |
| Israel On Your Own Israel on your own is easier than you might think. Tips and suggestions for independent travel in Jerusalem and Israel... |
| Jordan! Petra! The Dead Sea! The Red Sea! Travel in the Middle East? Jordan is an easy place to begin and easy to do on your own. What's in Jordan? Petra, Jerash, and Wadi Rum, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea and more. |
| Madagascar - Land of Endemics Madagascar is a real destination. It's not just a cute movie; the lemurs and chameleons as well as the fantastic scenery make for a wonderful adventure. |
| We Found Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda The Virunga Mountains of Rwanda are home to Mountain Gorillas. East Africa is known for safaris on sweeping plains, but there's more. Are Mountain Gorillas on your Africa Dream List? |
| Hotel Tips - What Kind? What To Watch For Hotel tips to help you choose. What kind? To reserve or not? What about hidden fees? What are hotels called in foreign counties? Explore these questions. |
| Adventure Cruises -- Sometimes the Only Way to Get There Sometimes adventure cruises are the only way to explore off the beaten track or experience a scenic wonder. |
| Try A Tented Camp -- For Adventure and Eco-tourism A tented camp? What is it? Why stay in one? It's not the tent camping of your youth.... They're sophisticated and ecologically friendly. Tented camps we've visited around the world. |
| African Tented Camps Safari You dream of Africa. You want to go on safari, but they want to put you in African tented camps? Don't worry, you'll love it!! See tented camps we've visited and why we think you'll love them too. |
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| Free Travel Search -- Legitimate Search Engine Results If you can't find the free travel advice you need on our site, simply enter your search term on this free travel search page and search our site or the Web for more results. Happy travels! |
| Interesting Travel Links for More Fun and Information We've found interesting travel links -- they're scattered through our site, but here's one convenient page to find additional travel information for more fun in more corners of the world. |
| Mouse Site Map Our Mouse Site Map gives you one more way to travel the world with a click of your mouse. |
| Mousemap for Travel Stories to Inspire You Our Mousemap for travel stories -- a site map. With a click of your mouse, travel with us to some of the places we've been... may our stories about these destinations inspire you to travel. |
| 2007 Retrospective -- A Way To End One Year and Plan The Next Our 2007 Retrospective reflects on how lucky we're been to explore so much of the world and share it on our website. How we wrote the website and where we've traveled -- may this inspire you. |
| Our 2008 Travels Where our 2008 travels took us. Domestic adventures and international trips to Jordan and Madagascar. How to share travels with a website of your own. |
| Carry-On Size -- How Big Can It Be? You want to travel with carry-on size luggage now more than ever with airlines charging to check bags. We help you figure out what you can take onboard. |
| US Travel Authorization for Visa Waiver Countries Travelers to the United States need to be aware of the US Travel Authorization program. |
| Foreign Toilets -- What to Expect Foreign toilets may be really different than you're used to at home.... some notes about what to expect. |
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| South Africa - More Here Than Just Safaris! South Africa has great safari camps and wildlife, but it also has beautiful beaches, great wine country to explore, and plants that will drive a gardener wild... |
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