It’s not exactly a new concept, combining work and pleasure. Quite the opposite, business and pleasure started off together but, with...

As a lifelong budget traveler, I’ve seen the inside of countless bottom-budget accommodations: from tents to shacks to huts to crumbling...

Solo travel is an exciting and rewarding experience for many people. The personal freedom to do what you want on your own terms and...

Whenever an article is published on the topic of solo travel, it typically comes with a cover photo of a solitary traveler pensively...

Hell must have frozen over, because I finally made a vlog to share with y'all! I have resisted making videos until now since: I don't...

When I came to the USA as a child refugee from the Soviet Union, I was pretty blown away by the American car culture. Everybody drove....

Living in a Caribbean resort town in Mexico, I sometimes hear tourists or expats gripe about how "some things are as expensive as New...

International travel on a budget usually involves traveling to "budget destinations": countries with a significantly lower cost of living...

When you travel solo, you are always meeting new people. That's the beauty of solo travel: you end up having so many random conversations...

The travel industry is always coining and spinning new catchy terms for different types of travel. Recently, I wrote about my uneasy...

Where I currently live in Mexico, there's a fabulous little multilingual used book store / exchange, where I go every couple of months...

In the past year, the term “revenge travel” started popping up all over the internet-verse, passed around by media outlets predicting a...

Although I don't address the ever-evolving world of digital nomads in the Hack Solo Travel guidebook, I believe it's a relevant topic of...

One of the things I get a huge kick out of during my travels is catching live music and street performances. In my chosen travel...

If you've traveled abroad in the post-Septermber-11th world, you know that you don't have to be an international criminal to provoke...

Solo travel -- especially for women -- is becoming a huge trend, but it seems that many travelers are still intimidated by the prospects...

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has been a global bummer to put it mildly. We've all, each in our way, had to struggle with uncertainty,...