Planning your first big trip? Advice and humor to get you through the process.
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What should you bring? What should you leave? We've rounded up recommendations from experts and guidebooks. Then we sifted through the list based on our first-hand experiences. Much of the stuff we brought on a recent proved useless. Some items we could have bought on our travels. Some stuff was a waste of money. Click the link below to save some dough and valuable bag space.
On a recent solo trip around the world, the author visited at least one country on every continent. The plane tickets alone cost $5600. Was it worth it? more
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