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This peaceful ecolodge tucked into a remote Vietnamese mountainside is the definition of paradise
The Plaid Zebra February 12, 2018

All photos from Topas Ecolodge Tucked peacefully away into the remote, mountainous region of Sapa, Vietnam, sits a stunning, extraordinary oasis. Surrounded by mountains and otherworldly scenery, the …

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Life without Borders
The Pros and Cons of Staying in a Hostel
The Plaid Zebra May 14, 2017

Hostelling appears to be a growing trend as more people are packing their bags and jetting off with every passing day. Post graduation, recent dropout, gap year adventurer and even those recently reti…

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Life without Borders
How to fall in love with #HostelLife
The Plaid Zebra April 29, 2017

My first night in a hostel I was 19, in Guatemala, thinking I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, and that I really needed a drink. So much has changed over the last 4 years. From being scared …

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Backpacking Checklist
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These 10 travel Instagram accounts will inspire you to hit the road
The Plaid Zebra April 23, 2017

If a person travels and doesn’t share their experiences via Instagram, did they really travel? While the answer to that may seem an easy one of yes, in the social media age a traveller void of I…

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Expression & Culture
This beautiful couple travels the world and gets paid up to $9,000 per Instagram post
The Plaid Zebra April 17, 2017

BY: QUENTIN STUCKEY We’ve all been there. That unbelievably mind numbing feeling as we glance over at the calendar on our desk, carefully examining how many more weeks we have until our next vac…

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Hitchhiking Movies
Life without Borders
Hitchhiking movies that will motivate you to hit the road
The Plaid Zebra April 13, 2017

BY: TIM O’NEAL Just like many stories about hitchhiking, movies about hitchhiking often focus on the negative. The Hitcher comes to mind immediately. That scene in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure when L…

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Hitchhiking Stories
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Hitchhiking stories: 3 positive hitchhiking stories
The Plaid Zebra April 3, 2017

BY: TIM O’NEAL Everyone has heard hitchhiking horror stories. Any conversation about hitchhiking inevitably leads to discussing the risks and inherent dangers, but these negative accounts are th…

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Hitchhiking
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Hitchhiking: 10 things to consider before catching a ride
The Plaid Zebra March 30, 2017

BY: TIM O’NEAL The allure of the open road is strong for many of us. Crisscrossing the country (or the world!) with nothing but a backpack, catching free rides from strangers, is a romantic noti…

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Life without Borders
Hitchhiking: 5 must know tricks for getting across the country
The Plaid Zebra March 27, 2017

Hitchhiking can be as simple as standing at the side of the road and holding up your thumb. Anyone can do it, but there are definitely ways to increase your chances of catching a ride. Follow these fi…

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Worldschooling
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Worldschooling turns the entire planet into a classroom for some lucky kids
The Plaid Zebra March 26, 2017

BY: TIM O’NEAL To most people, a school is a monolithic brick building with drab paint on the interior walls. It’s where students walk in line and sit at desks. A teacher stands in front of the …

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Life without Borders
The Weirdest and Most Creative Places People Have Turned into Homes
The Plaid Zebra March 5, 2017

BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE  These eccentric homeowners wrote the handbook on unconventional living. If you think your first apartment was small, check out these weird, quirky, and outright strange places pe…

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campervan
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This couple lives in a tiny camper trailer that only cost them $1,800
The Plaid Zebra February 8, 2017

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP “I met her on Tinder, but got to know her in a camper trailer.” This is the quote that immediately made me love Greg and Kathleen’s story of their transition into the tiny hous…

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Life without Borders
The ‘Bucket List Family’ sold everything they own to visit dozens of different countries around the world
The Plaid Zebra February 3, 2017

BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE All photos from The Bucket List Family  The ‘Bucket List Family’ has well earned their nickname by doing what everyone with even a sliver of wanderlust in their soul dreams of: se…

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Van life
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After a devastating earthquake, this family rebuilt their lives in a 1987 Volvo van
The Plaid Zebra February 1, 2017

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Saving money, the ability to roam freely from city to city, doing your part to help the environment; those are probably the three most popular reasons as to why people have been ditc…

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travel couple
Life without Borders
For 8 glorious years, this couple backpacked through 51 countries, while living out of vans for $10 a day
The Plaid Zebra January 26, 2017

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP When Lauren and Craig met eight years ago working at a pizza shop in England, I doubt they could’ve predicted where their relationship would take them. Maybe they imagined some trave…

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Body Vs Mind
People who say long distance relationships don’t work have obviously never been in love
The Plaid Zebra January 24, 2017

BY: KIRSTEN POWLEY I’m not the first person to think a foreign accent is sexy. I’m also not the first person to have had a relationship with someone while travelling or living abroad. As m…

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Life without Borders
We introduced our 18-month old daughter to the joys and dangers of backpacking in the Andes
The Plaid Zebra January 22, 2017

BY: TIM O’NEAL We had lost or broken, months ago, almost every electronic device we had brought with us. The only thing we had left that kept time was our point-and-shoot digital camera. It didn’t hav…

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niceattack
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I was in Nice during the attack- this is what I saw versus what you saw
The Plaid Zebra January 19, 2017

BY: BROOKLYN PINHEIRO  The fireworks came to an end and the eight of us turned away from the Promenade. It was Bastille Day and since we were traveling in France we anticipated a night full of celebra…

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Life without Borders
Nature lovers rejoice: Canada is finishing one of the biggest trails in the world this fall
The Plaid Zebra January 16, 2017

BY: ELIJAH BASSETT 2017 is the year of Canada’s 150th birthday, but this year it’s the citizens who’ll be getting a gift, in the form of a massive trail that passes through every province and territor…

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Life without Borders
This family converted an old school bus into an eco-friendly, travelling hostel
The Plaid Zebra January 13, 2017

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Transforming buses into homes was a huge trend in 2016 that probably won’t slow down at all this year. The mobility, cost and environmental impact are just a few of the reasons more …

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