Travel is taking an active stance. Society funnels people from school to career to family. However, when you travel, you're making a conscious decision to stop following the script that you're given. Instead, you start to write your own script for life. On the personal finance blog "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" (sounds...

Cairo, Egypt Stability and control: that's the role of an aircraft spoiler. As your jet prepares to land, the spoiler may rise to decrease lift, increasing the rate at which the aircraft descends or slowing the speed of the aircraft down. The Wright brothers would have been impressed. For the long-term traveler, however, the spoiler,...