Travel Hack Friday: #DIY Orange Peel Oil Candle #travelhacks
If you’ve been following my travel hack series, you may remember in a previous post: Gone in 30 Seconds with a Bug Out Bag, I recommended including olive oil as an essential part of your 72 hour bag. Olive oil has a litany of benefits: it’s healthier, it’s safer (lower ...
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Travel Hack Friday: How to Find Edible Bugs
Eww insects? That’s the typical reaction when one thinks of bugs. The very thought of the creepy crawlies can cause phantom tingles among the most adventurous of us. Now imagine having to eat them. For many parts of the world, like South East Asia, edible bugs are delicacies - daily ...
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Travel Hack Friday: Gone In 30 Seconds With A Bug Out Bag
I often like to paraphrase Robert De Niro’s character in the movie Heat, where he says, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat.” Granted, his life was decidedly different from my own, being a bank robber and all, ...
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12 Tricks To Conquer All You Can Eat Las Vegas Buffets
Recently, I put together my list of the top 5 best buffets in Las Vegas, but realized I was giving a peak into paradise without the keys to enter. And so I just had to follow up with a Hack: specifically how to eat your weight and conquer all you ...
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Travel Hack Friday: How to Forage For Food
Above image courtesy of Jeff Kubina. The image is of cattails which are super edible plants. Stalks are like celery and the tuber can make flour and tasty pollen We’ve lost some instinctual skills over the centuries. Air conditioned Superstores have made us complacent. While the thought of having to ...
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Travel Hack Friday: Avoid Paying for Extra Rental Car Insurance
Above Image of Courtesy of Hakan Dahlstrom Does the choice of whether or not to get rental car insurance cause profuse sweating and confusion while you stand at the counter, facing off with the rental agent? If it does, you’re not alone. It plays out the same all the time: ...
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Travel Hack Friday: Know How to Prevent Wrinkles While Packing
Above image courtesy of Syuuki Oneimauo “Excuse me, my eyes are up here!“ I can’t tell you how many times I’ve noticed someone’s wandering gaze fixate directly on the giant crease right across my chest, to only be told, “It’s just a wrinkle, you can barely see it!” Oh, if ...
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Travel Hack Friday: How to Find The Best Campsite
The El Dorado of the great outdoor experience, trying to find the absolute best campsite is the legendary myth that many speak of, but few have found. Although U.S National and State Parks do their best to balance conserving nature, with the millions of visitors that trek through the parks ...
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Travel Hack Friday: Compare Ridesharing and Taxi Service Rates Worldwide
I’m sure you’ve seen them. The cars with the gigantic logos emblazoned on the side, or the pink mustaches hanging off the hood, zippin around the city with passengers crammed into the rear seats. Ridesharing and Taxi service have changed the face of city travel. In fact, throughout most metropolises ...
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Travel Hack Friday: Get Cash Back on Travel Purchases
Above image courtesy of Nick Ares You might think this travel hack is a no brainer, but you’ll be surprised how many of us don’t take advantage of rebate sites and get cash back on travel related purchases like cheap flight tickets, or even hotel reservations. Most of us are ...
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