Tag: Flights

Ultimate Air Travel Guide: Essential Tips for First Time Flyers

Ultimate Air Travel Guide: Essential Tips for First Time Flyers

You’re going on your first flight! HOORAY! I’m so excited for you! Right now, you might be feeling excited, nervous, overwhelmed, overjoyed, or a myriad of other emotions. How do you book a flight anyway? How do people get around airports without getting lost? What 

Flying with a Pug: Everything You Need to Know

Flying with a Pug: Everything You Need to Know

My husband and I adopted our pug from a dog-rescuer in Mexico City the year we first moved there. We lived there for three years but a few months ago we moved back to Canada. The reason we had chosen to adopt a small dog 

Affordable Transportation: How to Find Cheap Flights, Train Tickets & Bus Fares

Affordable Transportation: How to Find Cheap Flights, Train Tickets & Bus Fares

I’ve never been very wealthy. Until now I’ve only had jobs that paid minimum wage. Now I’m an Online ESL Teacher so even though I make more than minimum wage, I still don’t make tonnes of money. Yet I still manage to travel quite a 

Eco-Friendly Travel: How to Have a *Slightly* More Sustainable Flight

Eco-Friendly Travel: How to Have a *Slightly* More Sustainable Flight

We all know by now that flying is awful for the environment. It releases much more CO2 than land travel (cars, buses, and trains) into the atmosphere. Traveling by airplane is a heated topic (no pun intended) among environmentalists and activists everywhere. While there are 

Donating to Algae Biofuel Research as a Way of Carbon Offsetting

Donating to Algae Biofuel Research as a Way of Carbon Offsetting

If you’re like me you probably know that your somewhat healthy travel addiction is not so healthy for the planet. You want to see the world but you feel guilty as hell knowing your air travel is polluting the Earth. So what the hell are