So, mmm, I’ve talked about how we should prepare before the trip (here!), about transportation (here!), and about accommodation (here!), so I guess now I will talk about other miscellaneous things. Online Transportation Apps. These are different from the transportation apps that I wrote in the previous post. These apps are actually more for local …
Taking Care of Travel Accommodation
In the previous post (here), I’ve talked about the app for transportation, now I’m going to talk about accommodation. Well, usually I try to lower my budget by staying at my friend’s or an acquaintance’s place. As long as they don’t mind giving me some space to sleep and clean up, I’d be very happy …
Some Apps to Travel with “Low” Budget
I love traveling but I’m not that rich, so I really have to think about traveling with low budget because, again, I don’t have that much money. Still, I want to make the most of my trips and I want to have fun. Hence, good planning is a must. Well, as you might have known, …
Traveling: Navigating Your Ways (Pre-Departure)
I originally wrote this for road-trip traveling, but I guess it applies to any kinds of traveling, i.e. even when you don’t travel by driving your own/rented car yourself. Well, many people think that navigating through a road trip is easy considering the technology we have nowadays. We can set the destinations using GPS or …
Going to Australia: Sydney Chapter (part II)
So, mm, my flight was delayed, and damn, they didn’t compensate me at all, no snacks or whatsoever. I was really pissed because I was charged $60 for my overweight backpack, but, ok, this and that were different. I was still in the wrong. But I really didn’t like it because it meant that I’d …
Going to Australia: Tasmania Chapter
This might sound like a lie–i.e. I might look stupid, but to be honest, I didn’t know about Tasmania before my friend finally mentioned it. (Yeah, I know Tasmanian devil but somehow it didn’t click). So, umm, my friend said that Tasmania looked like New Zealand; i.e. it’s like the mini New Zealand, so if …
Going to Australia: Melbourne Chapter
The reasons I decided to visit Melbourne were 1) it just didn’t feel right to visit only Sydney, 2) I had another friend I could stay with, and 3) I kinda wanted to visit Monash university and another part of Aussie. I mean, I heard many friends are actually studying in Monash. And it turned …
Going to Australia: Sydney Chapter (part I)
I had never been to Australia before so it was my first time visiting the country. It’s the 22nd country I visited (including my own country, just to make it look many. LoL) and it made it the 4th continent I went to. I had never thought I wanted to go to Australia before, but …
A pursuit of postcards: Is it still a thing?
I might have said this before but when I go traveling, I try to get a postcard and send it to myself. Hence, one of our purposes during our winter road trip was to get a postcard from each state we visited or passed by. My friend didn’t send it to herself but she still …
Winter Road Trip, December 2018 (Part III)
So, well, we finally made it to our destination, Mt. Rushmore, and continued the road trip and finally made it home safe. It was crazy, though. We were supposed to stay a night at Santa Fe, NM before returning to Tucson, AZ. But I guess we’ve been too tired so we just headed straight to …