Avoiding Currency Conversion Charges

While traveling abroad, having cash on hand is always important. The convenience of being able reserve rooms in hostels, or pay with a credit card though, is unparalleled; not to mention carrying a credit card is safer than carrying a wad of cash on you.

Rain Forest Zip Lining

It’s 7:00am and the small taxi bumps mercilessly on the old beat up Jamaican road. Today my family is on our way to go zip lining through a Jamaican rain forest.
A horn honks loudly and startles me out the micro-sleep I had slipped in to. If I lived here I would have run someone off [...]