My Travel Optimizer

I’ve recommended opening a checking account specifically for your travels. This way you can leave the debit card for your primary account at home. I found another easy way to get a Visa debit card. I was at Wal-Mart buying a cable when I saw that they were selling Wal-Mart brand Visa debit [...]

When you are traveling in Tropical areas outside of the United States it is a good habit to use insect repellent. Malaria, Dengue fever and other nasty diseases are transmitted via mosquito bites. Dengue and Malaria exist in Costa Rica but are rare.
The usual standby has been DEET bug spray. [...]

I want to talk about about something I’ve found that has really helped me out in organizing my life. Like most modern people I have a lot of stuff to keep up with. There’s a ton of payments; utilities, cell phone, internet, student loan, car payment, etc. How often do you need to [...]

Here is a good article from a travel blog called everything-everywhere.com. You can find the article here. I agree that the guidebook is being supplanted by online information. There may be room for both but I turn more to the internet these days than I do the guidebooks. I have a cousin [...]

The first thing I’d like to say is that Dengue and Malaria are rare in Costa Rica. I hear of infection in places like the Caribbean coast and near the Panama border. These diseases are virtually unheard of in the interior. If you go to Costa Rica you should take bug spray. [...]