Pre-Trip Planning: How Much Research Should You Really Do?

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What is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions?

Travel.

To help any of you who may have “More Travel” written on that list of things you’d like to accomplish in 2015, we’ve decided to help you plan your trip.

Heather joins me as we chat about our planning process – the more fun, research-based side, for the more practical aspects of travel planning check out our Pre-Travel Checklist.

We discuss how we decide where to go, researching things to do at your destination, accommodations, tours, and how to conduct on the ground research.

What are your travel plans for 2015?

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Today’s episode has been sponsored by our friends at Tortuga Backpacks!

In This Episode:

  • 05:19 – Picking a destination
  • 08:45 – Google Flights Explorer
  • 10:48 – The differing costs of cities
  • 15:16 – Researching your destination
  • 20:00 – Planning your itinerary
  • 30:29 – Booking accommodations and tours
  • 34:51 – On the ground research
  • and much more!

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Part II: Our Top 14 Experiences of 2014

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We know that we’re lucky to be able to travel the way we do, and we look forward every day to helping you guys travel in a way that suites your lifestyles and goals.

And of course, we don’t mind being the guinea pigs for a lot of the advice we toss your way!

Yesterday we shared some of our top 14 travel experiences of 2014 with you and today we’re here to finish off the list!

What are some of your favorite travel experiences from 2014?

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In This Episode:

  • 9:10 – I admit my obsession with sports.
  • 15:07 – A sold-out festival.
  • 21:50 – Sneaking across the border of Croatia.
  • 29:47 – The best travel day we’d ever had.
  • 36:10 – Getting to stay in a mansion for a month for free.
  • 41:00 – Roadtripping through Croatia and abandoned hotels.
  • 47:08 – A story of Goat Chez.
  • and much more!

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Part I: Our Top 14 Experiences of 2014

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We were lucky enough this year to be able to spend most of 2014 traveling.

And in honor of the holidays and sharing our gratitude we thought we’d go through our Top 14 experiences of 2014.

Today we’ll discuss the first half of our favorite experiences including the rare experience of being cold in Bali, waterfalls that are nicknamed “The Spiderman waterfalls”, and the wonderful experience of making authentic Italian pizza.

Check back tomorrow for even crazier stories and experiences from a year that was FULL of travel!

What are some of your favorite travel experiences from 2014?

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In This Episode:

  • 5:54 – Being Cold in Bali
  • 12:10 – Sticky Waterfalls
  • 15:30 – The city of romance
  • 23:00 – Slovakian castles
  • 32:24 – Making Pizza in Tuscany
  • 37:45 – The Great Wall
  • 43:00 – A city that we were never interested in
  • and much more!

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21 Ways to Make Long-Haul Flights Bearable

Very few people actually look forward to those 20+ hour travel days.

Unless of course, they’re in business class.

With long flights, horrendous layovers, and no sleep, those days go down as the price we pay for travel.

But they don’t have to be!

Today Heather joins me to share some tips & tricks to making those travel days more enjoyable. From the day before your trip to finding ways to make sleep possible, even in economy class, we’ve got tips that will help every traveler make the most out of the “lost days” of travel.

What are your recommendations for getting through long-haul flights intact?

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In This Episode:

  • 06:24 Flying mid-afternoon.
  • 08:49 The items that will make your flight sooooo much more comfortable
  • 15:53 Scoping out the seating arrangements.
  • 19:22 The beauty of sleep aids.
  • 23:41 Making your layovers more pleasant.
  • 30:08 What you can do after you touchdown
  • 36:00 Recommended listening.
  • and much more!

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Taking a Digital Sabbatical

There are great things about being a location independent professional.

But, as we’ve mentioned before, there are bad things too.

And one of those bad things is the attachment to our computers. To the internet. This needs to always be connected, to always be ready to solve any and all problems that come up with our businesses.

Yet there’s a solution. Jason Moore, host of the Zero to Travel podcast and often co-host here is BACK.

He’s been out on a one-month digital sabbatical. Today he joins us to chat about his experience, how he managed to arrange such a thing, and what he’s taking away from the experience.

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In This Episode:

  • 01:39Not even 2 minutes and the puns are back.
  • 4:36Taking a digital sabbatical.
  • 08:56If not now, then when?
  • 13:50Forcing forced automation.
  • 23:00The Monkey Mind.
  • 36:13Relying on your team.
  • 41:35Actually putting pen to paper
  • and much more!

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