Making travel more affordable is one of our top goals, but it requires the development of habits and muscles to really start saving money. There are also layers of understanding that will come as you see how those saving decisions fit with the travel life you want.

“Customs” is short hand for process of legally allowing you entry into another country. If you need a passport to visit the country, you will be going through Customs. This is usually another check point in the airport/cruise ship/border crossing station process. If you’ve gone through a TSA security check point as part of air travel in the US, the Customs process it will be very similar.

As I began to travel more and found myself looking for products to make certain parts of the travel process more comfortable, I kept stumbling across Travel pants. I furrowed my brow a bit and thought, “These look like just pants, what makes them so special?”

Our 16-year-old teen daughter learned a lot – not just about the places and the people we visited, but little things that make life more functional like how to navigate putting your passport somewhere you can reach it quickly, or paying attention to addresses and train numbers so you know what’s happening and can get around.

The novelty and panic of being on the ‘wrong side’ softened as we hit a huge M24 traffic jam which allowed me to slow down and ask, “How did this left handed driving thing happen anyway?!”