technology review

  • Azores at dusk, where to go on your next vacation

    Travel tech tools review

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    See our travel tech tools review of five types of technology we used on a recent trip. While travel is pretty basic (i.e. go somewhere new and see how it is), the tools we use while we travel are constantly changing. It seems like every trip we go on, there’s some new technological toy to…

  • Documenting Travel

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    I’ll begin this post by saying flat out–I hate writing in a journal. I never do it in ordinary circumstances. I know I should and that all of the reasons I am about to put forth for why you should keep a travel journal can apply just as well to non-travel days, but I can’t…

  • Queensland Coast in Australia

    Travel apps for planning: pros and cons of six travel planning apps

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    Smartphones and technology have changed the way we travel. I will not pretend to be an expert in those ways, but I certainly enjoy many of the conveniences technology offers while I am on the road. Below are a review of six travel apps for planning. I tested these out while on a month-long trip…

  • Sahara Desert in Morocco after a rare storm

    Preferred Sites for Planning a Trip

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    We may not travel full time, but we sure spend a good chunk of our free time planning our next trip. For every week of actual travel, there are months and months of planning. I can scarcely remember a time when the internet did not play a big role in that planning process. Below are…

  • What to do when E.T. can’t phone home

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    This morning was rough. After a series of most unfortunate events, my shiny new iPhone ended up taking a swim. The friendly IT guy at work gave me a baggy full of silica gel packets and told me to put my phone in there and leave it for 24 hours. So today I’m kickin’ it…