Flying can be stressful, tedious, and nerve-wracking. Crammed into a seat, wedged between hundreds of other people and facing the prospect of 10+ hours of airplane food, bad romantic comedies, and crawling over strangers every time you have to pee, flying can seem like a humorless situation. Enter the flight [...]
There are plenty of ways to get yourself around the world and it’s never been easier than right now. For as long as anyone can remember, humans have been walking, riding, sailing, rafting, and hitchhiking just to get around the world. If you have plenty of money, but no time, [...]
(One of Pacsafe’s writers, Bryan Schatz, took a roadtrip to the Western United States. This is part 3 of 4 of his trip) Picking an outdoor destination in Utah is challenging. There’s Grand Staircase-Escalante, Canyonlands, Bryce, Moab, Arches, Monument Valley, Capital Reef… you could get lost forever in any one [...]
(Pacsafe writer, Bryan Schatz, took a roadtrip out West in Colorado, USA. This is part 2 of 3 of his trip) Durango itself is a slice of beer-brewing and café-toting bliss, and while many outdoor activities lay within city limits, it’s what surrounds Durango that’s the main attraction. Heading south [...]
Pantomiming and gesturing becomes an integral part of traveling when you don’t speak the language.You begin relying on your hands to communicate the things that your mouth is unable to pronounce. For the most part, this real life game of charades is heartwarming, hilarious, and entertaining. Unfortunately, the lack of [...]
(One of Pacsafe’s writers, Bryan Schatz, took a roadtrip out West in Colorado. This is part 1 of a 3 part mini-series of his trip) We’re on a journey across the West in search of pure road trip bliss. We packed up the Suby with a bunch of necessities: hiking [...]
Once while on my way to class in Germany, I watched a group of young travelers board a bus and rush to the back, where they proceeded to lounge back with their feet up on the seats and provide offhand commentary about everyone near them very loudly in their native [...]
When I travel, I am concerned with one thing and one thing only: food. Sure, the museums are great and the architecture is fabulous. The villages are quaint and the people charming, but what I really want to know is….when do we get to eat? Every waking moment, I’m scoping [...]
Travel is a humbling experience. It shows you how big the world is and how relatively insignificant both you and your problems truly are. When you’re out there, at the mercy of fate, you accept that you aren’t in control. But when you return, you should take those awesome life [...]
Cargo ship travel was long ago filed as one of the most romantic forms of seeing the world, joined by hitchhiking and tramping along boxcars. Today, most people have written off cargo ships as a mode of transportation, but they are still very viable for those who want a [...]