travel tips – Transient Local

How to Travel Alone

I have some advice for those who balk at the idea of cutting loose and voyaging to foreign lands with nothing but a backpack for company.

I travel alone a lot, and love it. But there are plusses and minuses to solo travel.

There’s nothing like the serenity and breathtaking beauty of the Annecy lakeside.

A walk in the Massif d’Esterel

Five unique, reasonably-priced experiences I’ll never forget

Affordable housing issues aside, there’s also a kind of unpredictability inherent to staying in many Airbnbs that I find annoying

Five of my favorite travel moments from 2015

The experience was humbling, to say the least.

Walking from Marseille to Cassis through the Calanques National Park

Like many who fly into Split or pick up one of the cross-country buses there, I might never have seen it in daylight if I hadn’t slowed down.