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Indie Travel Challenge Roundup: Travel Photos, Giving Back, Simple Moments & More
This week on the Indie Travel Challenge we asked about your favourite travel photos, how you afford to travel, the ways you give back, the importance of ecotourism, the ways you find pleasure in simple moments, what learning looks like while traveling and how you see yourself in the context of a rich and complex world. Here are some of our favorite responses!
Seeing Ourselves In The Context Of A Rich World
Jennifer Miller has been a student with the world as her classroom and humanity as her teacher since she was a child. In her continuing series, following the Indie Travel Manifesto, she examines the lessons she’s learning regarding her place in the context of a very rich world, indeed.
How to Choose the Antarctic Cruise That’s Right for You
You’d be surprised at how many itinerary options there are to choose from for a cruise to Antarctica. Phill Danze has experienced one first hand and has some great tips to help you make the best decision.
Indie Travel Challenge Round Up: Tips, Manifestos, Planning & Packing
This week on the Indie Travel Challenge we asked for your travel tips, what you couldn’t travel without, and challenged you to create your own Indie Travel Manifesto, among other things. Check out some of the great responses we got and join the ITC for the coming weeks!
Five Unexpected Treasures of South America
Everyone knows to visit Machu Picchu, Iguazu Falls, and Patagonia when in South America, but Adam Seper recommends five places you may not have heard of that you’d be crazy to miss.
Fighting Fears
We all have fears that we battle in the dark of night. The question is, how do we get beyond them? How do we separate the rational from the irrational and refuse to be controlled by them?
Defining Your Own Values & Crafting Your Own Meaning for Life
Think along with Jenn Miller about how travel can be a contributor to the growth process of defining your own values and crafting your own meaning for life. We all learn and grow, sometimes the world is our best teacher.
Indie Travel Challenge Roundup: Why You Travel, What You’ve Learned & Going Local!
This week marks the kick off of November’s Indie Travel Challenge. So many cool people have come out to play! Read some of the responses we loved to this week’s questions about why people travel, what they’ve learned, and their hometowns, as well as why local information matters so much! Join the party and maybe you’ll be featured next week!
How the Indie Manifesto Informs My Travels
How the principles of the Indie Travel Manifesto shape one traveler's approach to every trip — and what the Indie Travel Challenge revealed about practicing them in real life.
Ditch the Guidebook: 8 Alternative Trip Planning Resources
In an age where the internet is swamped with travel blogs, information and reviews, the traveler with limited time almost instinctively reaches for the printed guidebook, but is it really the wisest choice? Denise Pulis shows you how ditching the guidebook and making the time for some personal research may turn out to be more rewarding.
The Freedom of Travel vs. The Paralysis of Stuff
On the heels of Black Friday, Jenn Miller discusses why she’d rather have options than possessions and questions the sanity of following the American Dream just because that’s the way it’s always been done. Are you itching for something different? Read on.
Camper-Vanning New Zealand
After hunting for rentals and being shocked by the prices Jenn Miller began to think outside the box. She’ll show you how to get an affordable rig and access to the inside benefits of camping like a local in an RV in New Zealand, whether you’re going for two weeks or six months