Travel Tips

3 Ways You Can Use Your Phone Abroad

Traveling internationally soon? You'll want to decide how you're going to use your phone abroad so you don't get hit with crazy roaming charges!

In this video, I explain the three ways you can use your phone abroad so you can communicate with people over text/calling, connect to the internet, and #let'sbereal post that pic on Instagram that will make all your friends back home envious. ;)

4 Steps To Take Now To Land a Travel Job

4 Steps To Take Now To Land a Travel Job

Finding a job that allows you to travel often can be tough, though it is doable, and you can start taking steps now if your goal is to land a travel job.

Especially when you realize that your average corporate setting allows maybe 10 paid vacation days per year and that you're working 50 out of 52 weeks...then you definitely need to get creative with traveling when you have a full-time job!

This post is for those who are looking to create a work + travel lifestyle by working for a company/organization and want to be traveling for at least six months or so. 

What Should I Pack For Year-Long Travel? #AskAlly

What Should I Pack For Year-Long Travel? #AskAlly

I get quite a few emails asking questions about traveling, work + travel, and blogging (please feel free to email me anytime!) and sometimes the questions can be similar.

So what did I do? Compile a few helpful Q & As into blog posts to share them with you! These Q & A type posts will have an #AskAlly in the title.

This first #AskAlly post is asking about packing for year-long travel. Long-term travel of any kind can be tricky as it is tempting to bring your entire closet and bathroom with you, but that's not reasonable!

Read on for my two easy suggestions to make packing for long-term travel easier.

Hey Ally,

That's awesome, I just quit my corporate job as well to pursue my dream of traveling to Australia. I was wondering if you have any tips for me on what to pack and how much, I will be backpacking for about one year, and have repacked about 3 times already and still have way to much stuff.