Three Extra Ways to Improve Yourself While Doing a Year or More of Traveling

Travel Tips - Ross French - November 2, 2016

Travel broadens the mind, and can teach you a huge amount of things about people, the world, and yourself that will stay with you for the rest of your life. If you are planning to take a year or more away from home to go and live in another country or travel the world, then you are sure to come back with countless new skills and a wealth of useful experiences that will help you in your career and your social life. This is just a natural side effect of getting out of your comfort zone and interacting with new people and places. However, if you want to make your time traveling even more transformative, you could also set yourself some personal goals for self improvement to work on while you are away. Here are a few ideas:

Study for an Online Degree

A great way to use your time traveling, if you will be in places where you can access the internet, is to start studying for an online degree. You can do all kinds of courses online these days, so whether you want to start a vocational degree, study business, or get a postgrad degree like an MSN administration degree, you can study wherever you are and come back from your travels closer to an important qualification. Travel tends to involve some exciting and busy times, but also quite a lot of ‘dead time’ while you are traveling between locations, or where you don’t have your usual sources of entertainment and social interaction. Studying something like online RN to MSN programs can help you use all of that time productively.

Get Fit!

Some people get out of shape while traveling, thanks to all the interesting foreign foods and time spent in hotel rooms. You don’t have to be one of them, and by setting the goal to come back in better shape, you can actually make more of your trip. Walking, running, swimming or cycling are all good ways to see more of the places you visit, and of course, depending on where you go, there may be other opportunities to do active things like watersports. Many hotels have gyms or pools, and if you are staying in more long term accommodation, joining a local gym can be a good way to meet people, too.

Learn a Language

Whether you are traveling to places that speak English, like the UK, Australia or New Zealand, to a place where another language is spoken, or to a variety of places where all different languages are used, traveling can be a good time to start to learn another language even if you don’t need it for your trip. With online tools and mobile apps like Duolingo, you can study a language in your downtime for free, and if you happen to be somewhere where you can use it, watch TV in it, and really immerse yourself in it, you’ll get great results really quickly.

These are just three things you could commit to doing to make your traveling period an even more life changing experience.

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Top-rated Bicycle Rides For Vacationers

Travel Blog - Ross French - October 11, 2016

It is becoming more and more popular for people on vacation to look for places that they can stay where they can ride a bicycle to get places part of the time. Here are some of the best experiences possible for those that would like to get a work-out the next time that they travel:

The Big Bay Loop in San Diego:

A lot of people consider San Diego to be one of the premier ‘outdoor’ living cities in the United States. What they don’t always realize when they visit is that the city has set aside enough public roadway so that there is a very large loop ride around San Diego Bay open to bicyclists year-round. Starting South from the downtown area along Harbor Drive, visitors can tour the industrial National City and see the largest Navy base on the West Coast. Continuing on, there are plenty of natural wetlands to explore as you cycle towards the beaches and the Peninsula known as Coronado Island. Coronado is famous for the movie ‘Some Like it Hot’ and is one of the only places in Southern California to host an outdoor ice skating rink during the Christmas season. The loop length is over 20 miles and can take a few hours to complete.

Portland Downtown: For some people, the idea of riding a bicycle in a crowded downtown area seems to be an unnerving experience. In a city like Portland, with its wide open spaces and bike culture, it can be a pretty good experience. The city has a bike-sharing program that actually makes it easy to find a bicycle to ride around. Getting downtown to pick your starting place is also convenient because there is a light-rail line in almost every part of the city that will take you there. Even if you are flying in, the airport has a direct light-rail link to the downtown area, making it unnecessary to use a car at all. Once you are downtown and on a bicycle, you can choose to follow a travel guide but it makes a lot more sense for you to just explore and enjoy seeing what you want to see. The only thing that you need to remember is that the numbered streets get smaller as you approach the Willamette river.

Central Park, NYC: New York City rolled out the red carpet to tourists over a decade ago and hasn’t really looked back. The city’s pride in itself and its landmarks has allowed visitors to continue to enjoy one of the world’s largest urban areas on bicycle. Central Park is one of the most talked about parts of New York City and shouldn’t be missed. Central Park bike rental NYC is available and can help make your Central Park visit memorable. Unlike Portland or San Diego, it is a good idea to plan where you want to visit within the park before you leave so that you can maximize the amount of time that you have to spend at each attraction. Bikerentalcentralpark.com is one place that you can visit that can provide both bicycles and popular routes within the park.

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Great Reasons to Go Traveling Now

Travel Tips - Ross French - October 4, 2016

Everybody has different reasons to go voyaging. There are a few people who travel in light of the fact that the inclination snatches them. Other individuals ought to go in view of their employment. Continue Reading

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Most Peculiar Streets in the World

Destinations - Ross French - September 6, 2016

It’s difficult to envision what was experiencing the psyches of the planners that outlined a portion of the accompanying roadways, however they surely give an uncommon point of interest to muddled sightseers.

9 de Julio, Buenos Aires

This mammoth road is named after Argentina’s National Day of Independence and holds the qualification of being the world’s most extensive road. Bold people on foot need to cross 300 feet and nine paths of activity to get the opposite side. The center of the road offers splendidly manicured greenhouses, landmarks and squares where people on foot can rest and accumulate their nerves before proceeding to the opposite side.

Parliament Street, UK

Claustrophobics ought to avoid one of the world’s tightest road that measures 50 meters in length and is only 0.64 meters at its tightest point. Already known as Small Street, it was renamed after a development of the agents of the House of Commons. The real littlest road can be found in Reutlingen, Germany and measures only 0.31 meters in a few sections.

Putrajaya, Malaysia

The world’s biggest circuitous does not feel like an indirect to drivers because of its sheer size. Ariel photographs demonstrate the genuine size of this tremendous circuitous that has a timberland at the inside. It is roughly 2.11 miles the distance around and is near the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office.

The Road to Giza, Egypt

The Road to Giza is more than 4,600 years of age and is the world’s most seasoned known cleared street. It was worked to permit the entry of building materials from quarries in Southwest Cairo to Lake Moeris. It covers an aggregate separation of seven and a half miles and has turned into a national historic point.

Gravity Hills, Various Locations

Gravity slopes are astounding areas were the laws of gravity don’t appear to apply. Autos left out of rigging will mystically move tough, and water will stream up the slope making no sense. In spite of their fame and apparently enchantment powers, gravity slopes are simply optical illusions where the encompassing scene makes a tough incline show up as is whether it is indicating downwards.

Each nation around the globe has its own style of laying out its city lanes, with a couple tossing out the principle book by and large. Irregular engineering is enormously engaging both vacationers and local people, and the majority of the previously mentioned avenues have earned themselves a spot ever.

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Incredible Reasons to Visit Miami

Travel Tips - Ross French - September 1, 2016

The Everglades

The Everglades, the tropical wetlands that stretch crosswise over southern Florida, are right outside Miami. The Everglades are a home to various uncommon and jeopardized species, for example, manatee, American crocodile and Florida jaguar. These aren’t waters that you’d need to swim in – they are swarmed with crocodiles. The Everglades are a magnificent spot to watch nature, however. An airboat visit is the best and least demanding approach to investigate and appreciate the genuinely unequaled and dynamic environment of the Everglades!

At the point when going by the Everglades, head to a crocodile homestead to appreciate a gator appear. This is really exceptional and exciting knowledge! Proficient specialists will show you how to handle these animals of the bog and demonstrate some basic getting methods. What can be more energizing than encouraging a gator and bringing a photograph with him? Caimans and snakes are different animals you will get to know at the Everglades.

The Florida Keys

The Keys are a string of substantial, coral islands that begin 15 miles from the south of Miami and go about the distance to Cuba. You can without much of a stretch discover an island to yourself and spend the day there. Key West, Lower Keys, Marathon, Islamorada and Key Largo are the significant spots to visit. The Keys have a ton to offer, from outside imaginativeness, celebrations, exhibition halls, to displays and visual expressions. What I cherish most about the Keys is that they are immaculate spot to escape from the occupied and boisterous existence of Miami. It’s the ideal spot to spend your getaway or get-away!

Miami is an essential destination for craftsmanship

From the Dina Mitrani Gallery to the sixth Street Container, Miami is a hotbed of creative experimentation. The Perez Art Museum of Miami on Biscayne Bay, a well known new workmanship destination, is one of the most recent increments to the city’s craft circuit. Progressively, Miami is turning into an amazing destination for critical craftsmen and workmanship displays from around the nation. Miami’s Art Galleries and historical centers aren’t stuffy or threatening – they are well disposed spots that anybody can learn something about craftsmanship in. Specialists of craftsmanship can’t miss Miami Art Week – the primary week of December, when a large number of authorities, merchants, craftsmen and visitors touch base in the city. It’s a standout amongst the most vital contemporary craftsmanship occasions in the US that everybody ought to visit in any event rare.

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