Cooking Up the Perfect Trip with Tripcipe – A Review
We check out the new travel planning tool Tripcipe and find out if it’s worth adding to our personal travel toolbox.
The Barefoot Nomad’s Best Travel Things
It’s that time of year again where we look back and share some of our favorite tech gear. If you’re looking for something techie for the travel person in your life, you just might want to start here.
Sea Monsters and Ice Cream: Hiking With Kamino in Kelowna British Columbia
Hike with us and Kamino along the beautiful lakefront of Kelowna, BC, in search of sea serpents, ice cream, and the ultimate grilled cheese.
How To Become A Professional Travel Blogger – Going Pro
Have you thought about taking your travel blog to the next level? Check out our tips and tricks for upping your game or teaching you how to become a better professional travel blogger.
The Barefoot Nomad’s Best Travel Things of 2013
In the past year, we’ve logged well over 17,632 miles as the crow flies, visited five continents, and tasted some of the best ice cream (gelato and dondurma included) around. From apps to sandals to cameras and pillows, here are some of our very favorite travel things.
5 Ways to Share Your Mobile Data Connection
Over the years, we’ve become reliant on a decent Internet connection when we travel. When we first hit the road over ten years ago, personal Internet was a rare luxury. It was always welcome but getting it outside of Internet cafes and hotel lobbies wasn’t often possible. These days, it’s available almost everywhere and because of our jobs, it’s also mandatory.
Now that we travel with a Tablet, 2 iPhones and a couple laptops, we’ve found the need to share that Internet connection to be just as important. That being said, creating our own Mobile Hotspot is one of the first things we do when we get to a new location and a decent WiFi signal can’t be found.
In case you’re like us, here’s a list of products and ideas to help share your mobile data connection while you’re on the road.
25 Free Must Have iPhone Travel Apps
As travel bloggers, we use our iPhones constantly to find hotels and apartments, book airfares, get directions, select restaurants, phone home and share photos. Check out our list of free, must have travel apps to make life on the road that much easier.
How to Call Home While on the Road
One of the hardest things to do while on the road is to talk to friends and family back home on a regular basis. They’re generally living their normal lives, going to work and so forth while you’re doing your own thing on the other side of the planet.
Emailing, texting and video chatting all help immensely however what happens to those friends or relatives not plugged into the internet or on the cutting edge of technology? Sure you can send them a postcard and hope they’re doing well however that’s a little one sided and frankly, so 1880.
Let’s kick it up 50 or so years and remember how it was done for almost a hundred years. Most people still have a telephone and here’s a quick rundown of traditional and not so traditional ways to phone internationally.
