Articles written by: Nikki Hodgson

Traveler vs. Pickpocket: Walking through a crowd without losing your wallet

Traveler vs. Pickpocket: Walking through a crowd without losing your wallet

There is nothing worse than losing your valuables while traveling. It’s bad enough to lose them when you’re at home, but losing your passport or your wallet (or both) while you’re thousands of miles away from home is a special sort of agony and trying to replace those items can [...]

Long Layovers: Where to Stash Your Stuff

Long Layovers: Where to Stash Your Stuff

Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself in the hotel lobby with a pile of baggage, a few hours to kill before your train or plane departs and nowhere to leave your anti theft handbags. Yeah, me too. It’s a frustrating experience to be held back by a mountain [...]

How to Survive a Bus Trip Across Europe

How to Survive a Bus Trip Across Europe

  If it were up to me, I would travel exclusively by train and first class flights. Unfortunately it’s not up to me; it’s up to my wallet. Well, that’s not entirely true either. If it were exclusively up to my wallet, I would be walking and hitchhiking a lot [...]