Travel Turtle

I was very excited to see that Concierge.com’s It List for 2009 included Central Philippines. It’s truly a beautiful place that is really accommodating to foreign travelers.
Check out their list for some great ideas of where to travel next year!

A simple way to be able to travel more, is to be able to keep travel costs down. Don’t you agree? The following tips are the ways I try to keep my own travel costs down, so that I can afford to travel more frequently. Or at least make sure that I don’t go broke [...]

This week is Geography Awareness Week. I love geography. I used to have a large world map on my bedroom door with all of the world’s flags on it. (I also love flags.) Emma blogged about flight map posters by Mario Freese today which I think are a great way to begin Geography Awareness Week. [...]

“London Times” by arete
Want to bring a little bit of arts and crafts culture into your next trip? Here are various ways you can insert creativity into your travels.

Most Required: A notebook. People seem to love the moleskine, and I think they’re great. Take notes of places you want to go beforehand, keep notes of [...]

MSN.com has rounded up 8 of the world’s most remote destinations, or the anti-social person’s vacation to-do list. They have it as a slide-show, but for convenience sake, I’m just going to post them individually and link to the msn post if you want to read more. (Image of map from CIA Factbook)

Tristan da Cunha, [...]

I have a lot of journals, but for now I’m going to post one I made between late 2001 and early 2002. It was inspired by the journals of Dan Eldon. Before I write about my journal, I have to write a little about Dan Eldon.
There’s a lot to say and I will try [...]

I was going through some of my pictures, and I realize I like trains. The more I thought about it, the more I realized… I really like trains.
My first train ride was in 5th grade when I joined my class on a trip from Miami to Washington DC. I travelled on several european trains during [...]