Travel Tips

Experience is a good teacher, but why make the same mistakes others have? Learn from my fun-yet-often-harrowing experiences...

→ General Tips for successful travel

→ My Travel Philosophy

→ The most important Souvenir

→ Advantages of a digital camera?

 

Traveling Light & Cheap

The mobility and freedom from traveling light and inexpensively is immeasurable Here are some ideas.

→ A General Packlist

→ What I pack for every excursion

→ Examples of actual travel costs

→ Rental car vs. rail & public transit

→ Roundtrip vs. Open Jaw flights

Travel Info

As a Geographer, I know travel. Exploring, wandering, pondering, observing, and seeing landscapes (physical, cultural, or otherwise) is one of my favorite things to do. Hopefully the information here, gathered through my personal and sometimes painstaking experiences, will help in your travel endeavors! Questions? Thoughts? Email me!

Casey D. Allen

Geographer, PhD

Case's Places

Lists of things to do and see when traveling bother me. While I often have goals in mind, and perhaps an itinerary, both usually get tossed aside because, once on the ground, things can change rapidly! I believe ardently that: a tourist sees what they came to see; a Traveler sees what they see. Counting countries also bothers me. I am simply happy to be traveling: wherever, whenever, and however...But, if you are curious, here are some of the places I have been:

→ Africa (Egypt)

→ Asia

→ Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Turkey

→ Europe (visit my castle!)

→ Austria (with Hallstatt!!), Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain (with Toledo), Switzerland, Wales

→ North and South America

→ 48 contiguous States

→ British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec

→ Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, various Caribbean Islands, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay