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Sharing with you resources that helped me with travel planning + inspiration:

Books: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; Dan Brown’s Da Vince Code, and Angels and Demons; Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven; Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; Hardy Boys series; Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird; Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; Jack London’s The Call of the Wild and Other Stories; J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye; Jean Twenge’s Generation Me; John Irving’s The Cider House Rules; John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl; Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women; Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind; Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia; Nancy Drew series; Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter; National Geographic’s Guide to National Parks; Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth; Peter Haugen’s World History for Dummies; Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull; Robert Frank’s Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy; Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass; Stephen King’s The Shining, From a Buick 8, The Green Mile; Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair; Sweet Valley Kids series; Teodoro Agoncillo’s A History of the Philippines; Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood; Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. For reviews, visit Goodreads and Scribd*.

Shows: Disney movies, Home Alone series, Little Rascals, Mean Girls, My Girl, National Geographic, The Men Who Built America (I don’t really like watching movies; better ask a movie geek)

Tourism sites: free walking tours, Nomadic Matt, official tourism website

Travel planning sites: Airbnb*, Booking.com*, Skyscanner, World Nomads*

(*Note: It helps keep this site going every time you sign up or book from these links. I am a big fan and have been using these sites since 2015. If this blog helped you in any way, it doesn’t hurt to make your booking from these links. Thank you!)

P.S. My keys to sustainable travels: acknowledge that your trip might not go as planned | back up important files before and during travel | bring a portable multi-cooker, coffee/tea press, food containers, utensils, water bottle, water heater, and clothesline rope | bring extra medicines and prescription | bring souvenirs from home for friends you’ll meet along the way | get a local sim card | get travel insurance | have an extra card to be used only for emergencies | learn the language if you deem it necessary | listen to your gut | only bring stuff that you can carry on your own | only go for local food that’s vouched for being clean and safe | record and stay on top of your expenses | stay in accommodations where cooking is allowed | take public transportation | treat everyone and yourself with kindness and respect, as always |treat guidebooks as guides; don’t get boxed by them | visit local cafés | walk as much as you can | wake up early | when faced with difficult decisions, ask yourself why ❤