Tag: travel agent


  • My Medellín, Colombia Adventure: I Saved $5,500 by Going to Medellín

    If you Google Colombia, the first thing you’ll find is the question “Is Colombia a safe place to travel?” For decades, Medellín was synonymous with drug cartels and violence, thanks to the shadow of Pablo Escobar and the bloody 1980s and ’90s. Although things have calmed down a lot since his death, many people are…

  • London Layovers: a few lessons learned the hard way—so you don’t have to.

    Are you stranded at Heathrow Airport with hours to spare? Same. But instead of becoming one with the airport floor, I took a spontaneous trip into London—and made a few rookie mistakes so you don’t have to. While stranded in the airport for seven hours, I thought to myself: Do I stay in the airport…

  • How I Ended Up on a Thanksgiving Cruise to Haiti

    When I moved 11 hours away from my family to be closer to work, I didn’t think much about what the holidays would look like. I figured I’d just cross that bridge when I got to it. But then Thanksgiving started creeping up, and I had to make a choice. Between the sky-high holiday flight…