Traveling safe and healthy are two really important things to keep in mind especially when traveling to places far from home. While you can’t control everything when traveling, there are definitely things you can do to help keep yourself safe and keep your body healthy. Here are our tips for staying safe and healthy while traveling so you can enjoy your travels as much as possible!
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How to Get a Bolivian Visa as a US Citizen
While planning where we would be going in South America we talked a lot about wanting to go to Bolivia. The landscape of this often looked over country is so impressive. If you haven’t seen a picture of the Bolivian Salt Flats (Salar de Uyuni) go Google it and then come back. But as a US citizen we need a Bolivian visa in order to enter the country and as we started researching we got more and more confused. So this post is a full guide for how to get a Bolivian visa as a US citizen.
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One of the big things we did in preparation for our year of travel was sell all of our stuff in order to move out of our apartment. We didn’t want to pay every month for a storage unit of stuff to then have to deal with when we’re back from traveling. So we spent months going through everything we had. And since we were downsizing, selling as much as we could helped us buy almost all of our gear for the trip. So here is our process for selling everything to travel including the best platforms to sell and tips we learned along the way!
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Packing for long term travel can be one of the more complicated tasks to figure out. It depends heavily on where you are going in the world, the weather, specific activities you are doing, and a variety of other factors. For our travel, we like to be prepared for 80% of scenarios that we think could reasonably come up, and figure out the other 20% on the road. Here is my male long term carry on packing list.
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One of the hardest things once we decided to travel for a year was figuring out how in the world to pack. We want enough stuff that we have everything we need but not too much that we kill ourselves lifting our bags up every day. Since we are going to a wide range of different climates and doing some outdoor activities like hiking, we need a few very specific items. So here is my female long term carry on packing list!
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