Adventurous travel with off the beaten path ideas and cost saving tips!
Adventurous travel with off the beaten path ideas and cost saving tips!
This little soldier has been keeping watch over the soap dispenser in my bathroom for years. Not a soul passes without a thorough hand washing. My husband brought him back from a work trip to China a few years ago as he knows how fascinated I am with the story behind the Terracotta Army.
When traveling, sometimes things just don’t work out the way you plan. When I added “sleeping in a capsule hotel” to my 40 before 40 bucket list, I envisioned super modern pods that would be akin to sleeping in a space station. I imagined Rosie from the Jetsons delivering room service and a pod equipped with a Death Star control panel just incase I wanted to wage war with my pod mates.
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If you follow my blog, you know that I’ve been feverishly checking items off my 40 before 40 bucket list. The list of adventures I plan to complete in the next year are no cakewalk. Or, so I thought until I hiked the “The Plank Walk in the Sky” at Mount Hua, China.
This little girl has haunted me since I first saw her December 1, 2002. Something about her struck me as I walked past the thousands of mugshots that hang on the walls of S21 Prison Camp, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She’s probably 5 or 6 years old in this photograph- her mugshot- the last photo taken of her before she was killed for her “crimes”. She has stuck with me through the years and continually whispers “live…I didn’t get that chance.”
I love treehouses! Anyone who has ever been trapped in a conversation with me about them knows I get a twinkle in my eye, and it’s hard to get me to change the subject. I watch Treehouse Masters with the same enthusiasm others have for Game of Thrones. I have dreams of one day owning my own treehouse compound. Until then, I will seek them out!
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Quebec City is beautiful in the fall! The leaves are brilliant and everything about the environment feels like Europe from the “Bonjour” greetings to the French and British architecture. That is, everything except the prices! Currently, the Canadian dollar is worth approximately $0.80 to the US dollar. This means that you can subtract 20% off prices to convert costs to the US dollar. The prices you see for attractions and on menus are equivalent to prices you see in US cities, so you are essentially saving 20% on your trip right out of the gate if you live in the US. In contrast, you would be adding 20% if you were visiting a country in the European Union.
I am Susan Taylor, hence the “Taylor” in Taylored Adventures. I am a wife and mother who loves to travel. In fact, I am a wife and mother because of travel! I have visited 35+ countries, but I believe that adventure can be found across the globe or your own backyard. I am always on the lookout for off the beaten path exploration and ways to save money so I can travel more.
