Category: Planning

Just because Maui is a popular travel destination doesn’t mean it has to be expensive. Author Kyle Ellison shares 10 travel tips for experiencing paradise on a budget.

This 5-day itinerary pairs the top sights in Washington's wine country and Columbia River Gorge with the best wineries. This is a particularly good trip if you’re coming from Portland, Oregon, or Vancouver, Washington, which are situated nearby, right along the Columbia River.

There’s not one clear-cut, common way to visit uncommon Colombia. If you have a week, spend your time getting to know urban Medellín, the picture-perfect town of Jardín, and exploring all things coffee from the farm to your cup.

In just a few days, you can experience the best of Vancouver, combining outdoor activities, cultural explorations, and time for strolling, snacking, and sipping.

This itinerary will begins in Phuket, where you’ll get a chance to tour waterfalls, snorkel, dive, explore the world-famous beaches, and do some island-hopping, too. After that, you’ll take a flight to Samui, where you’ll visit not only the main island but also neighboring Ko Pha-Ngan.

Renting a home in the largest Italian cities is doable when compared to New York or San Francisco, but the longer you stay, the more hidden costs you will find. Author and expat John Moretti talks about the cost of living in Italy—and wage expectations—for those hoping to work abroad.

From historic spots to cattle drives, this two-day itinerary will help you make the best of a weekend in Dallas and Fort Worth.

Pump up your bicycle tires, fill your water bottle and hitch a ride by ferry to Washington state’s rugged Olympic Peninsula for a two-day journey along the Olympic Discovery Trail (ODT), a multi-use route that stretches nearly 130 miles from the eastern Victorian seaport of Port Townsend to the western oceanfront village of La Push.

A five-day itinerary for the best of a city straddling two continents: Start in old Istanbul & end on the Princes’ Islands with plenty of sights between.

The must-see here is Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. For the best day in Big Island's Volcano area, though, make sure you spread your time in the park around so you can experience both some daytime and evening highlights, and add in a little mingling with the locals.

Puerto Williams is the so-called “Capital of Antarctica” and gateway to the rugged Dientes de Navarino backcountry circuit, a five-day slog through soggy mountainous terrain. Here's a little about the town, its sights, and how to get there.