Tara Cannon and her husband Rann began traveling with kids when their firstborn was just 4 months old.
29.07.2024 - 15:58 / insider.com / Claire Sturzaker
Claire Sturzaker took her first solo backpacking trip for free. Now, she's been to 40 countries and has tips for other budget travelers like her.
"When I went on these backpacking trips, I really couldn't afford it," Sturzaker, a self-proclaimed nomad, told Business Insider of her early travels.
Sturzaker, known on Instagram as Tales of a Backpacker, is a full-time traveler who blogs about her experiences while sharing her tips with the world.
Originally from the UK, Sturzaker typically travels solo. She took her first solo trip to a ranch in Wisconsin when she was 19. She spent a summer exploring a new country, working on a ranch, and getting paid.
"I'd never worked on a ranch before. I was really excited by the idea of riding some horses in this cool country and earning money while doing it," she said. "So, in theory, it was basically a free trip. I earned enough money to pay for it, and I really enjoyed it."
Twenty years later, Sturzaker is still traveling the world — and saving money while doing it.
Tara Cannon and her husband Rann began traveling with kids when their firstborn was just 4 months old.
If your idea of Spain is eating paella, dancing flamenco, and improving your Spanish, Catalonia might surprise you.
You could call it the perfect Philly afternoon. The weather at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park one Saturday last spring was damp, drizzly, and gray, but no one at the Southeast Asian Market cared. There was too much fresh-pressed sugarcane juice, papaya salad, charcoal-grilled chicken hearts on a stick, crab fried rice, shave ice in countless flavors, and noodles upon noodles to be bothered by a little rain. Assorted languages flowed as groups of senior citizens and families with infants milled about the vendors. A quintuplet of teenage girls in black, white, and gray '90s-era hip-hop-meets-grunge outfits performed a choreographed dance to K-pop with age-appropriate enthusiasm on a covered stage. A vendor waited attentively as an elderly auntie adjusted her order from 15 to 17 to no, wait—she turned to consult with her friend and count heads—21 lumpia.
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While most American cities aren’t considered easy to navigate by foot, a recent study by travel insurance experts AllClear ranked one popular Southern city as the most walkable in the country. AllClear examined topographical information for more than 240 cities around the world, taking into account average elevation and range, and assigned each city a score — and ultimately, it was New Orleans that was named the most walkable city in the U.S. and the fourth most walkable city globally.
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tim Winkler, a recent graduate from Germany taking a gap year to travel. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
With 43 countries under her belt, Claire Sturzaker has backpacked through a range of destinations, from the Americas to Europe and Australia.
Right now, domestic airlines treat traveling families differently. A handful, such as JetBlue Airways, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines, guarantee that parents can sit next to their children. But on the others, parents are left to pay for more expensive assigned seats or to bank on the good will of strangers.
The last trip Gail and Andy Goldberg planned together was supposed to be an exciting adventure to Brazil. Andy redeemed a whopping 610,000 American Airlines miles for round-trip business-class seats for their journey. They would fly from Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) to Sao Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (GRU) via Miami International Airport (MIA).