Tips
Practical travel tips and advice
Tips17 Things I Wish I'd Known Before Booking a Houseboat in Alleppey
The brochure shows canals, coconut trees, and candlelit dinners. The reality involves aggressive touts, diesel engines, and the best fish curry of your life. Here's how to get it right.
Tips17 Portland Tips That Will Save You From Tourist Traps and Soggy Shoes
Don't pump your own gas, skip Voodoo Doughnut, and why your umbrella marks you as an outsider — 17 lessons from repeated Portland visits.
Tips17 Patagonia Tips That Will Save Your Trek, Your Budget, and Your Toes
From the blue dollar hack to the wind that'll knock you off a trail — hard-won advice from two Patagonia trips covering both the Argentine and Chilean sides.
Tips21 Mozambique Travel Tips I Learned the Hard Way
The ATMs that don't exist, the malaria meds you can't skip, and the Portuguese phrases that will save your trip. Everything I wish I'd known before my first visit.
Tips21 Bergen Tips I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before My First Trip
From the umbrella that's useless in Bergen wind to the supermarket hack that saves 60% on meals, here's everything I learned the hard way.
Tips18 Tips for Visiting Amalfi Town That Will Save You Money, Steps, and Tourist-Trap Limoncello
The piazza restaurant markup, the SITA bus ticket rule, the paper museum nobody visits, and the limoncello you should actually buy — hard-won advice from six visits to the Amalfi Coast.
Tips17 Tips I Wish Someone Told Me Before Visiting Jeddah
The visa takes 10 minutes, Al Baik's fish sandwich beats the chicken, and Friday morning is not the time to go sightseeing. Everything I learned the hard way.
Tips15 Andaman Tips That Will Save Your Trip (and Your Wallet)
The ATMs run dry on weekends. The ferries book out days ahead. The coral doesn't forgive sunscreen. Here's what I learned the hard way in the Andaman Islands.
TipsKoh Phi Phi Travel Tips: 18 Things to Know Before You Go
Koh Phi Phi runs on its own logic: no cars, no airport, cash-only lanes, and ATMs that gouge you. Get these 18 things right before you step off the ferry and the whole island gets easier.
TipsDahab, Egypt Travel Tips: 18 Things to Know Before You Go
From the cash-only reality and the Sinai-only visa quirk to reef-safe sunscreen and slack-tide diving, here's everything you need to know before your trip to Dahab, Egypt.
TipsLençóis Maranhenses Travel Tips: 18 Things to Know Before the Dunes
The lagoons are seasonal, the villages are remote, and the ATMs mostly aren't there. Sort these 18 things before you go and Brazil's strangest desert becomes one of the easiest places to love.
Tips19 Glacier National Park Tips From Someone Who Wasted Day One Making Every Mistake
No vehicle reservation. No bear spray. Showed up at Logan Pass at noon. Learn from my catastrophically bad first day.