Travel
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Argentina to Colorado: Working Abroad at a Winter Ski Resort
Garen Gulmez is a guest contributor to Adrift Anyway from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I met Garen while he was visiting a mutual friend in Los Angeles before heading back to Buenos, Aires and we’ve kept in touch ever since. In the following piece, he shares his experience and the value of traveling. He first came…
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How to Choose the Best Hostel (for you)
I’m a gusher for luxurious 5 star hotels and I try to book stays while I’m traveling as often as possible, but only if I have enough loyalty points to do it. Once you realize that you can’t book all of your stays using reward points, the next best thing for budget traveling is staying…
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How to Spend a Day at the Pamukkale Thermal Baths in Turkey
I spent two weeks in Turkey while traveling in September and it was one of the most diverse countries (as far as geography) we had a chance to visit. Rather than beginning our travels in Istanbul, we met in the Denizli province, which is about an hour flight west of Istanbul. Denizli is a city…
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How to Travel Cheaply in Australia
While planning my trip to South East Asia trip, I have been thinking about making a stopover in Australia, but the cost of traveling in Australia seemed daunting and figured other readers may feel the same. Our Australia expert, Alex Pejak, wrote a guest post for AdriftAnywhere to show us how affordable traveling through the…
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Exploring the Balkans: Dervish House in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Blagaj Tekke, a Sufi Monastery in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a site that I was so happy to experience thanks to Deny, the owner of the hostel we stayed in while in Mostar who brought us here. The Dervish House on the Buna River is absolutely picturesque. It sits beside a cliff with a spring…
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Trekking Peru’s Santa Cruz Trail: Part 3 – Taullipampa – Punta Unión Pass – Vaqueria
In 2012 on a trip from Lima, Peru to Cartagena, Colombia I had a chance to head on a 4 day/3 night circuit in the Cordillera Blancas. The landscapes of this region of Peru provide some of the most jaw-dropping alpine scenery I have witnessed, and the hike was definitely a highlight of the trip.…
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Trekking Peru’s Santa Cruz Trail: Part 2 – Llamacorral to Taullipampa
In 2012 on a trip from Lima, Peru to Cartagena, Colombia I had a chance to head on a 4 day/3 night circuit in the Cordillera Blancas. The landscapes of this region of Peru provide some of the most jaw-dropping alpine scenery I have witnessed, and the hike was definitely a highlight of the trip.…
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Trekking Peru’s Santa Cruz Trail: Part 1 – Huaraz to Llamacorral
In 2012 on a trip from Lima, Peru to Cartagena, Colombia I had a chance to head on a 4 day/3 night circuit in the Cordillera Blancas. The landscapes of this region of Peru provide some of the most jaw-dropping alpine scenery I have witnessed, and the hike was definitely a highlight of the trip.…
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Best Beaches From My 2013 Travels
2013 may not be over yet, but before I swap in my bathing suit and towel for sweaters and scarves I wanted to share what I consider to be my favorite beaches from my travels this year. There’s still a lot for me to see as far as beautiful beaches go, but this summer I…
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Reasons Why You Should Travel to Argentina
Argentina is one of the most popular countries to visit in South America and for good reason. Being the world’s eighth largest country, it offers limitless opportunities for exploration–from trekking in the Patagonian Andes, sipping coffee on a sidewalk cafe in Buenos Aires, whale watching on the coast, indulging in Argentine beef and wine, to…