Vagabonding Field Reports: Sailing in the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean

 

Cost/day: $200

Chartering a boat isn’t cheap. If you are lucky and know the right people you could however, get a job as crew, stewarding, cooking or being a deck hand if you don’t have sailing qualifications. If you are not working then watch out for hidden costs such as moorings, docking, water and tips for the crew which may not be included in the bill.

 

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?

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Posted by | Comments Off on Vagabonding Field Reports: Sailing in the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean  | July 7, 2012
Category: Adventure Travel, Backpacking, Female Travelers, Solo Travel, Vagabonding Field Reports

Vagabonding as a rock musician Post #7 – A Case Study: the Blues Against Youth

This article is the fifth in a series of posts explaining how to bring your music on the road and get to travel with it. Read the series’ introduction , Post#1 , Post # 2 , Post #3 , Post #4, Post #5 and Post #6.

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Posted by | Comments Off on Vagabonding as a rock musician Post #7 – A Case Study: the Blues Against Youth  | June 14, 2012
Category: Images from the road, On The Road, Solo Travel, Vagabonding Life, Vagabonding Styles

Vagabonding Field Reports: A Boat Hop to Bequia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, Caribbean

 

 

Cost/day:$10

The Caribbean isn’t really that cheap. However, if you’re creative and have some skills, anything is possible. Most of my money went on beer and bus tickets.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?

Three men waving a live lobster, barracuda pizza and and an Ugly Man competition.

Vagabonding Field Reports: Living the porteña life in Buenos Aires

Cost: £20 per day. It’s not cheap here and a bad case of inflation means that prices can change weekly, but it’s defiitely possible to live on a budget. I’m renting a room in an apartment shared with an Argentinian girl in Palermo for £250 a month. You can find cheaper options further out of the city. I also bought a monthly yoga pass (£80), and I eat out about twice a week. The rest … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (4)  | April 28, 2012
Category: General, Solo Travel, South America, Vagabonding Field Reports

Vagabonding Field Reports: Extra servings of history and kielbasa in Poland

            

Cost/day: $35/day

This includes $27/day for rusbank.net living and exploring, plus an additional $8/day to maintain full connectivity with my business remotely.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?

Dozens of giant statues and chapels made completely out of salt. Yes, I … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (4)  | April 28, 2012
Category: Europe, General, Solo Travel, Vagabonding Field Reports

Vagabonding Field Reports: Dadanawa Cattle Ranch, Guyana, South America

 

 

Cost/day: $0.8/day

Guyana isn’t really that cheap. However, if you’re creative and have some skills, anything is possible. I worked at Dadanawa Cattle Ranch for two and a half months in exchange for food and board. Most of my money went towards toiletries, insect repellant and beer. Being frugal was easy because the nearest town was 4 hours drive over rough savannah roads away.

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Women of the world, according to Sunday Tribune

In my routine travels around the ‘net, I came across this absolutely fascinating article called “Women of the World.”  As well-researched news articles go, it’s certainly not comprehensive (besides, everything we read on the internet is true, right?  RIGHT??), but it sure gives some fascinating names for future research.

My favorite is Maud Parris, a Yukon dance-hall girl, whose divorce proceedings ended with her mother and father leaping over the bench to punch her … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (3)  | March 22, 2011
Category: Female Travelers, Solo Travel

Rules for romance: single female travelers becoming pairs?

There’s a lot of you-go-grrl-empowerment articles on the web and in travel magazines about women traveling on their own, toting their own backpacks and having exciting adventures.  The general themes of these articles usually has to do with being brave and feeling safe walking the streets at night, making friends with locals, avoiding singles supplements or suspicious glances … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (3)  | February 22, 2011
Category: Expat Life, Female Travelers, Languages and Culture, Sex and Travel, Solo Travel, Vagabonding Advice

Experimental travel via Latourex

Latourex, short for Laboratoire de Tourisme Experimental, is a couple of French charmers who developed their experimental travel techniques to make their trips more interesting.  Instead of just doing the same old same old — go to a place, look at its museums, drink coffee at coffeeshops, attempt to blend in while suavely writing in your journal, hit on local members of your preferred gender — they offer numerous travel experiments one can perform, in … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (4)  | December 21, 2010
Category: Adventure Travel, Backpacking, Family Travel, Female Travelers, General, Senior Travel, Solo Travel

Love ’em and leave ’em and leave ’em…

One of the side effects of all those fun romantic flings you have with fun romantic locals wherever it is that you settle for a while, is the exciting, abnormal, and exhausting condition called love.  Love can spin your tailfeathers and put your travel plans at risk.

We’re told from a very early age that love is what we should be looking for, but what if, the next time you find it is very inconvenient?  … Read more »

Posted by | Comments (6)  | December 14, 2010
Category: General, Sex and Travel, Solo Travel